The ECI announced the dates for the Assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir, and Haryana on Friday. Jammu and Kashmir will go to Assembly Elections in three phases while Haryana will vote in a single phase.
The appointment of an election commissioner is made by the President of India based on the recommendation of a three-member selection committee chaired by the Prime Minister.
Gyanesh Kumar, a former Bihar cadre officer, and Sukhbir Sandhu, who served in the Punjab cadre, were appointed as election commissioners on March 14.
A post is going viral on social media with the claim that the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs has appointed two Election Commissioners. However, in India TV's fact-check, this claim was found to be false.
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The resignation of Arun Goel from a key post in the Election Commission of India has come just weeks ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, whose schedule is yet to be announced.
PM Modi will lead a crucial meeting to appoint a new Election Commissioner, succeeding Anup Chandra Pandey, whose term ends on February 15.
The bill also has provisions for a Selection Committee, chaired by the prime minister, leader of the opposition and a Union minister, to make recommendations to the President for appointment of CEC and other ECs.
Talking to reporters, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Rajiv Kumar said 95 polling booths will be managed by women and 11 by people with disabilities.
Former IAS officer Anup Chandra Pandey has been appointed as the new Election Commissioner of India. The appointment was made by President Ram Nath Kovind.
86 year old Former Election Commissioner G.V.G. Krishnamurty passed away here on Wednesday morning due to prolonged illness.
Former Finance Secretary Rajiv Kumar has been appointed as the new Election Commissioner, will replace Ashok Lavasa on August 31, the Law Ministry in a statement said.
Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa, tipped as the next in line to head the poll panel has resigned on Tuesday. As per reports, Lavasa will join the Philippines-based Asian Development Bank (ADB) next month at the post of vice-president.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has grilled Abir Lavasa, son of Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa, for alleged violation of foreign exchange laws, according to a senior official of the financial investigating agency.
Newly-appointed Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra assumed office on Friday and joined the Commission with Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sunil Arora and Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa.
CBDT Chairman Sushil Chandra was on Thursday appointed as an Election Commissioner ahead of the Lok Sabha polls due this summer.
The government also appointed former finance secretary Ashok Lavasa as an election commissioner.
The three commissioners, including the Chief Election Commissioner, are entitled to a salary which is “equal to the salary of a judge of the Supreme Court”, according to the provisions of a law governing their conditions of service.
Rajiv Mehrishi was will be the next CAG while Sunil Arora has been appointed Election Commissioner
Supreme Court today asked the Centre why no enabling law as mandated under the Constitution for the appointment of the Chief Election Commissioner and Election Commissioners has yet been framed.
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