Sushil Chandra takes cost as new CEC

SUSHIL CHANDRA assumed cost as the brand new Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) on Tuesday and can oversee the remaining 4 phases of Assembly elections in West Bengal.
Chandra succeeds Sunil Arora, who demitted workplace on Monday. A press assertion issued by the Election Commission (EC) credited Chandra with making EC’s election expenditure monitoring extra stringent.
“He has constantly emphasized the concept of inducement-free elections and it has become an important aspect of monitoring the electoral process in all ongoing and forthcoming elections,” the discharge stated.
It additionally stated that Chandra activated the position of many extra enforcement companies within the technique of election expenditure monitoring.
He is the second Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer to go the ballot panel. S Krishnamurthy, who oversaw the 2004 Lok Sabha elections’ conduct because the thirteenth CEC, was the primary IRS officer to be appointed to the place.
Chandra was appointed as an Election Commissioner on February 14, 2019, forward of the Lok Sabha elections. He would demit workplace on May 14, 2022. Under him, the Election Commission will maintain Assembly polls in Goa, Manipur, Uttarakhand, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh.
An IIT graduate and a 1980 batch IRS officer, Chandra was appointed chairperson of CBDT in November 2016. Chandra 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.