Two new election commissioners assume charge

Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar welcomed the two newly-appointed Election Commissioners— Shri Gyanesh Kumar and Dr Sukhbir Singh Sandhu who arrived at the Commission's office in Delhi on Friday.

New Delhi: Newly appointed election commissioners Gyanesh Kumar and Sukhbir Singh Sandhu assumed charge on Friday.

The former bureaucrats were appointed as election commissioners on Thursday.

They are the first ones to have been appointed as members of the poll panel after the new law on appointment of Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) and ECs came into force recently.

Welcoming them, CEC Rajiv Kumar spoke about the significance of their joining at a historic point when the Election Commission is all set to conduct Lok Sabha elections, a spokesperson said.