<p>New Delhi: Former <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/cec">chief election commissioner (CEC)</a> Navin Chawla passed away on Saturday, ex-CEC SY Quraishi said. He was 79.</p>.<p>Quraishi told <em>PTI</em> that he met Chawla some 10 days back when the latter had informed that he was getting admitted to hospital for a brain surgery.</p>.<p>"He passed away this morning at Apollo Hospital," Quraishi said, adding that he was cheerful when they last met.</p>.<p>Separately, an Election Commission functionary also confirmed Chawla's demise.</p>.Delhi Assembly Elections 2025 | CEC doing politics, destroyed credibility of EC: Kejriwal on row over Yamuna poisoning claim.<p>"Sad to know about passing on of Shri Navin Chawla, former Chief Election Commissioner of India. May his soul rest in peace," Quraishi wrote on X.</p>.<p>A former bureaucrat, Chawla was the election commissioner between 2005 and 2009, and then chief election commissioner from April 2009 to July 2010. </p>
<p>New Delhi: Former <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/cec">chief election commissioner (CEC)</a> Navin Chawla passed away on Saturday, ex-CEC SY Quraishi said. He was 79.</p>.<p>Quraishi told <em>PTI</em> that he met Chawla some 10 days back when the latter had informed that he was getting admitted to hospital for a brain surgery.</p>.<p>"He passed away this morning at Apollo Hospital," Quraishi said, adding that he was cheerful when they last met.</p>.<p>Separately, an Election Commission functionary also confirmed Chawla's demise.</p>.Delhi Assembly Elections 2025 | CEC doing politics, destroyed credibility of EC: Kejriwal on row over Yamuna poisoning claim.<p>"Sad to know about passing on of Shri Navin Chawla, former Chief Election Commissioner of India. May his soul rest in peace," Quraishi wrote on X.</p>.<p>A former bureaucrat, Chawla was the election commissioner between 2005 and 2009, and then chief election commissioner from April 2009 to July 2010. </p>