New Election Commissioners Gyanesh Kumar, Sukhbir Singh Sandhu Assume Office

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

These two former bureaucrats were appointed as election commissioners on Thursday. They were the first ones to be selected as members of the Election Commission after the new law on appointment of Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) and ECs came into force.

CEC Rajiv Kumar welcomed them to their new duty.

The two vacancies in the Election Commission came up following the retirement of Anup Chandra Pandey on February 14 and the sudden resignation of Arun Goel on March 8.

Gyanesh Kumar and Sandhu are 1988-batch IAS officers from the Kerala and Uttarakhand cadres, respectively.