Anup Chandra Pandey is new ECI
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Anup Chandra Pandey is new ECI President Ram Nath Kovind has appointed retired IAS officer Anup Chandra Pandey as Election Commissioner (EC). The appointment restores the three-member commission to its full strength, which will now oversee the next set of crucial Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Goa, Manipur and Uttarakhand next year. Pandey, a 1984-batch Uttar Pradesh cadre officer, has been appointed to the post in the Election Commission with effect from the date he assumes the office. A notification in this regard was issued by Legislative Department, Ministry of Law and Justice, on Tuesday. Pandey will now be in the three-member panel of the Election Commission, which was vacant after former Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora's retirement on April 12. Chief Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra and Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar are the other two members on the panel. Pandey was handpicked by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to head the state bureaucracy on June 28, 2018.
