Sushil Chandra takes charge as the 24th Chief Election Commissioner

New Delhi, April 13: A day after being appointed as the Chief Election Commissioner, Sushil Chandra assumed office as the 24th Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) of India. Yesterday, President Ramnath Kovind appointed Chandra as the CEC. 

 

 

During his over two-year tenure as an Election Commissioner, Chandra supervised assembly elections of more than 10 states and worked towards making the entire nomination process online. He will oversee the conduct of assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Goa, Uttarakhand, and Manipur as the CEC. His tenure will end on May 14, 2022.

 

Chandra belongs to the 1980 Batch of the Indian Revenue Service. Chandra has been Election Commissioner in ECI since 15th February 2019. He is also Member of the Delimitation Commission since 18th February 2020 looking after the Delimitation of Jammu Kashmir UT.

 

Chandra was born on May 15, 1957, and went on to pursue BTech from Roorkee University. He later pursued Law from DAV College, Dehradun.

 

He belongs to the 1980 Batch of the Indian Revenue Service (IRS). He served the IRS for 38 years before taking charge as Election Commissioner. He was also in the Indian Engineering Service before joining the IRS. He was the Chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance.

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