Sushil Chandra appointed Chief Election Commissioner

Sushil Chandra was appointed the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Monday, making him the second Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer to move the ballot panel.
Chandra will assume cost on April 13 and would demit workplace on May 14, 2022. Under him, the Election Commission (EC) would maintain Assembly polls in Goa, Manipur, Uttarakhand, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh.
He succeeds Sunil Arora, who retired Monday. Arora was appointed as an election commissioner on February 14, 2019 forward of the Lok Sabha elections.
S Krishnamurthy, who oversaw the 2004 Lok Sabha elections’ conduct because the thirteenth CEC was the primary IRS officer to be appointed to the EC.
A 1980-batch IRS officer, Chandra was appointed chairperson of CBDT in November 2016. He has labored in areas associated to worldwide taxation and investigation. He has been Commissioner of Income Tax (Appeals) International Taxation in Delhi. He was Director of Investigation, Mumbai and Director General Investigation, Gujarat.