New Delhi: Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra will take charge as CEC on Tuesday. He will be served in office nearly one year; he will retire on May 14^th, 2022.

The Government of India has appointed Sushil Chandra as CEC, in place of Sunil Arora who was retiring as CEC on Monday. He was appointed as EC in February 2019, weeks before the Lok Sabha election, replaces Sunil Arora as India’s top poll official. During his term in office he will oversee the conduct of polls in five states Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Goa, Uttarakhand and Manipur. Before his two-year tenure as an Election Commissioner, Sushil Chandra was Chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) and, since his appointment, has worked on 10 state elections.

He ascends to the Election Commission’s top post at a time when it is being fiercely criticised for failing to apply the rules evenly to both the ruling BJP and opposition parties.