Om Prakash Rawat appointed as new Election Commission Chief

NewsBharati    22-Jan-2018
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New Delhi, January 22: Om Prakash Rawat has been appointed as the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) of India and is the one to succeed Achal Kumar Jyoti.

 

Rawat, retired 1977 Madhya Pradesh batch lAS cadre has served many crucial roles as a government officer. From Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Rawat has done masters in Physics and later has completed MSc in Social Development Planning from the UK.

Meanwhile, former finance secretary Ashok Lavasa was also appointed as an election commissioner to fill up the vacancy that would have arisen in the three-member Election Commission after Joti's retirement tomorrow.

Also, Sunil Arora is the other commissioner in the poll body.

Rawat will take over as the CEC on January 23, a law ministry notification said. His tenure will end in December this year and Arora, the senior most commissioner after the Chief Election Commissioner, is expected to take over as the head of the poll panel as per convention.

Arora would retire in April, 2021, and would oversee the 2019 Lok Sabha polls as the CEC. Lavasa would demit office in October, 2022 and would be the CEC after Arora.