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Rajiv Kumar takes over as the

25 CEC of India
th

R ajiv Kumar

assumes
charge as
the 25 Chief Election
th
Commissioner of the
Rupublic of India. He
assumed charge on
May 15, 2022 at The
Election Commission
of India, Nirvachan
Sadan, New Delhi
in pursuance of the
Ministry of Law &
Justice, Government
of India’s Gazette
Notification dated May
12, 2022.
Rajiv Kumar has
been serving in ECI as
Election Commissioner
since September 1, 2020. During his tenure as lot has been done during the last seventy years by
Election Commissioner, elections have been held for ECI to give Indian citizens free and fair elections,
State Assemblies of Bihar in 2020, Assam, Kerala, to ensure purity of the electoral rolls, prevent
Puducherry, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal amidst Covid malpractices and enhance the quality of our
concerns in March-April 2021 and also elections to elections. “The Commission will follow the time-
Goa, Manipur, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh tested and democratic methods of consultations
recently in early 2022. and consensus building in bringing about any
Rajiv Kumar succeeded Sushil Chandra, the major reforms for dynamically evolving to changing
former CEC of India. ECI family bid a warm farewell contexts. And in matters for which it is responsible
to outgoing Chief Election Commissioner, Sushil under the Constitution, ECI will not shy away from
Chandra. tough decisions”, he added.
After assuming charge as CEC, Rajiv Kumar He said that Technology will further be made the
said that he is honoured to have been given the major instrument for simplification of processes and
responsibility to lead one of the finest institutions practices for bringing about transparency and ease
gifted by the Indian Constitution - the institution of voter services for better election management
that reinforces our democracy. He added that a and operations.

Source: https://eci.gov.in/

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