Retired bureaucrats Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Gyanesh Kumar were on Thursday named as the new election commissioners by a panel chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The panel, which consists of Leader of Opposition Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury and Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal, shortlisted the two officials from a list of six probables.
Both Sandhu and Kumar are retired IAS officers of the 1988 batch. While Sandhu is from the Uttarakhand cadre, Kumar is a Kerala cadre officer.
Sandhu has held key government positions, including that of the Chief Secretary of Uttarakhand and Chairman of the National Highways Authority of India.
Kumar has served as Secretary in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs and the Amit Shah-led Ministry of Cooperation.
The selection of both the Election Commissioners has come just days before the announcement of the Lok Sabha election.
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