New Delhi: In a contemporary appointment, President Ram Nath Kovind has named Anup Chandra Pandey as the brand new Election Commissioner (EC). In view of Sushil Chandra being elevated because the Chief Election Commissioner in April, the place of an Election Commisioner was vacant since April 13.
The appointment of Pandey will restore the ballot panel to its full power as a three-member fee. The legislative division within the regulation ministry mentioned the president is happy to nominate Anup Chandra Pandey as EC. Former Chief Election Commissioner of India SY Quraishi took to Twitter to congratulate Pandey.
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“Congratulations Mr Anup Chandra PANDEY for your appointment as Election Commissioner of India. Wish you a successful tenure. May you live up to the nation’s trust,” Quraishi wrote.
While Sushil Chandra is the CEC, Rajiv Kumar is the opposite election commissioner.
Who Is Anup Chandra Pandey?
Anup Chandra Pandey is a former Uttar Pradesh Chief Secretary. Pandey retired because the chief secretary of Uttar Pradesh in August 2019.
He belongs to the 1984 batch of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) from Uttar Pradesh cadre and can take the place of an EC with impact from the date he assumes workplace. He has 37 years of administrative service expertise. Pandey grew to become Chief Secretary of Uttar Pradesh in 2018 and held the place until he retired in August 2019. He is the present member of the monitoring committee within the NGT. He has held many necessary posts within the Uttar Pradesh authorities together with the place of DM of many districts
At the identical time, Pandey has maintain the place of commissioner in lots of divisions within the district.
The LinkedIN profile of Anup Chandra Pandey famous the 2019 Lok Sabha polls as a “very big achievement”. “The peaceful, transparent & incident-free conduct of Lok Sabha elections 2019, where tensions between various stakeholders were very high as certainly a very big achievement,” it says.
Once he assumes workplace as election commissioner, the primary meeting election below his watch will by the way be that of Uttar Pradesh, his dwelling cadre moreover Punjab, Goa, Manipur and Uttarakhand subsequent yr.
