Chief Election Commissioner of India



































Chief Election Commissioner of India
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Media address by Chief Election Commissioner of India, Shri Sunil Arora on 2nd December 2018 (cropped).jpg

Incumbent
Sunil Arora
since 2 December 2018
Election Commission of India
Nominator Government of India
Appointer President of India
Term length 6 yrs or up to 65 yrs of age
(whichever is earlier)
Deputy
Election Commissioners of India
Deputy Election Commissioners of India
Salary
₹250,000 (US$3,500) per month[1][2]
Website Election Commission of India




















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The Chief Election Commissioner heads the Election Commission of India, a body constitutionally empowered to conduct free and fair elections to the national and state legislatures and of President and Vice-President. Chief Election Commissioner of India is usually a member of the Indian Civil Service and mostly from the Indian Administrative Service. It is very difficult to remove the authority of the Chief Election Commissioner once appointed by the president, as two-thirds of the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha need to vote against him for disorderly conduct or improper actions.


Despite the recent[when?] changes in the hierarchy, the system always had powers to impose unambiguous rules and guidelines that applied across the entire nation e.g. as to how the ballots will be cast and counted, what will be regarded as 'unqualified' vote. India was probably one of the first countries in the World to go for a completely electronic ballot in the last elections.[when?] What made this remarkable was that the Election Commission of India had successfully implemented this across the entire diverse Indian population that also consisted of the rural illiterate people.


While the office has always been an important one in the machinery of the Indian political process, it gained significant public attention during the tenure of T.N. Seshan, from 1990 to 1996. Seshan is widely credited with undertaking a zealous effort to end corruption and manipulation in Indian elections.[3][4][5] Though he made significant progress, several politicians attempted to derail these efforts. In particular, the expansion of the Election Commission to include the two Election Commissioners (in addition to the Chief Commissioner) was seen as a move to curtail the commissioner's ability to act aggressively.




Contents






  • 1 Suggested reforms


  • 2 Compensation


  • 3 List of Chief Election Commissioners


  • 4 References





Suggested reforms


In June 2012, Lal Krishna Advani, a veteran Indian politician and former Deputy Prime Minister of India (as well as former Leader of the Opposition in Indian Parliament),[6] suggested that appointment of CEC (as well as the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG)) should be made by a bipartisan collegium consisting of the Prime Minister, the Chief Justice, the Law Minister and the Leaders of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha.[7][8] Subsequently, M Karunanidhi, the head of Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) party and five times Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu[9] supported the suggestion. Advani made this demand to remove any impression of bias or lack of transparency and fairness because, according to him, the current system was open to "manipulation and partisanship".[7][8] Similar demand was made by many former CEC's such as B B Tandon, N Gopalaswamy and S Y Quraishi.[10][11]



Compensation


By the "Election Commission (Condition Of Service Of Election Commissions And Transaction Of Business) Act, 1991", the salary of the chief election commissioner is the same as salary of a Judge of Supreme Court of India.[1]









Salary of the Chief Election Commissioner
Salary

₹250,000 (US$3,500) monthly [1][2]


List of Chief Election Commissioners


The following have held the post of the Chief Election Commissioner of India.[12]










































































































































































No.
 Name
 Portrait
 Term of office
1
Sukumar Sen
Sukumar Sen.jpg
 21 March 1950
 19 December 1958
2
Kalyan Sundaram
20 December 1958
 30 September 1967
3
SP Sen Verma
1 October 1967
 30 September 1972
4
Nagendra Singh
1 October 1972
 6 February 1973
5
T. Swaminathan
7 February 1973
 17 June 1977
6
S. L. Shakdhar
18 June 1977
 17 June 1982
7
R. K. Trivedi
18 June 1982
 31 December 1985
8
R. V. S. Peri Sastri
1 January 1986
 25 November 1990
9
V. S. Ramadevi
VS RamaDevi.jpg
 26 November 1990
 11 December 1990
10
T. N. Seshan
T.N. Seshan in 1994.jpg
 12 December 1990
 11 December 1996
11
M. S. Gill
Minister of State for Youth Affairs & Sports, Dr. M.S. Gill.jpg
 12 December 1996
 13 June 2001
12
J. M. Lyngdoh
14 June 2001
 7 February 2004
13
T. S. Krishnamurthy
The Chief Election Commissioner Shri T.S. Krishnamurthy casting his vote at a polling booth in New Delhi on May 10, 2004.jpg
 8 February 2004
 15 May 2005
14
B. B. Tandon
Shri B.B. Tandon in his office after assuming the charge as the Chief Election Commissioner of India in New Delhi on May 16, 2005.jpg
 16 May 2005
 29 June 2006
15
N. Gopalaswami
The Chief Election Commissioner, Shri N. Gopalaswami announcing the schedule for the Lok Sabha polls, at a Press Conference, in New Delhi on March 02, 2009 (cropped).jpg
 30 June 2006
 20 April 2009
16
Navin Chawla
Election Commissioner Shri Navin. B. Chawla releasing Landmark Judgments on Election Law at a meeting with Chief Electoral Officers of all the States, in New Delhi on June 28, 2006 (cropped).jpg
 21 April 2009
 29 July 2010
17
S. Y. Quraishi
Dr. S.Y. Quraishi taking charge as the Chief Election Commissioner of India, in New Delhi on July 30, 2010 (cropped).jpg
 30 July 2010
 10 June 2012
18
V. S. Sampath
Shri V. S. Sampath assuming the charge of the Election Commissioner, in New Delhi on April, 21, 2009.jpg
 11 June 2012
 15 January 2015
19
H. S. Brahma
The Chief Election Commissioner, Shri H.S. Bramha addressing a Curtain Raiser Press Conference on the project of seeding of Aadhar with Electoral Roll database, in New Delhi on February 26, 2015 (cropped).jpg
 16 January 2015
 18 April 2015
20
Nasim Zaidi
Dr. Syed Nasim Ahmad Zaidi assumes the charge as the Election Commissioner of India, in New Delhi on August 07, 2012.jpg
 19 April 2015[13]
 5 July 2017
21
Achal Kumar Jyoti
Shri Achal Kumar Joti taking charge as the Chief Election Commissioner of India (CEC), in New Delhi on July 06, 2017 (1) (cropped).jpg
 6 July 2017[14]
 22 January 2018
22
Om Prakash Rawat
Shri Om Prakash Rawat (cropped).jpg
 23 January 2018[15]
 1 December 2018
23
Sunil Arora
Media address by Chief Election Commissioner of India, Shri Sunil Arora on 2nd December 2018 (cropped).jpg
 2 December 2018[16][17]
 Incumbent


References





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  2. ^ ab "The High Court and Supreme Court Judges Salaries and Conditions of Service Amendment Bill 2008" (PDF). PRS India.


  3. ^ Das, Sanjib Kumar (1 May 2014). "The man who cleaned up India's elections". Gulf News. Retrieved 10 August 2016.


  4. ^ Narasimhan, T. E. (12 May 2012). "'The more you kick me...'". Business Standard. Retrieved 9 August 2016.


  5. ^ Srivastava, Ritesh K.(The Observer) (5 March 2012). "Empowering the EC". Zee News. Retrieved 19 December 2014.


  6. ^ "Members Bioprofile". Lok Sabha of India/National Informatics Centre, New Delhi. Archived from the original on 29 April 2011. Retrieved 27 April 2011.


  7. ^ ab "Karunanidhi backs Advani's view on collegium to appoint CAG, EC". Times of India. 5 Jun 2012. Retrieved 5 October 2012.


  8. ^ ab "Karunanidhi backs Advani's plea for collegium". The Hindu. Chennai. 5 June 2012. Retrieved 5 October 2012.


  9. ^ "DMK's Official Homepage-Chennai-Tamilnadu-India 800x600 screen resolution". Dmk.in. 9 December 2011. Retrieved 24 January 2012.


  10. ^ "Collegium needed to select EC: SY Quraishi". The Times of India. July 16, 2012.


  11. ^ "Ex-CECs backed collegium, Law Ministry not too keen". Indian Express. 10 Jun 2012. Retrieved 5 October 2012.


  12. ^ "Previous Chief Election Commissioners". Election Commission of India. Archived from the original on 21 November 2008.


  13. ^ "Election Commission of India". ECI.nic.in. Retrieved 11 June 2017.


  14. ^ Borgohain, Sonalee, ed. (July 3, 2017). "India's new Chief Election Commissioner Achal Kumar Jyoti to take charge on July 6". India Today. Retrieved September 2, 2017.


  15. ^ "Om Prakash Rawat to succeed AK Joti as new Chief Election Commissioner". The Indian Express. New Delhi. January 21, 2018. Retrieved January 21, 2018.


  16. ^ "President Kovind appoints Sunil Arora as new Chief Election Commissioner". 2018-11-26. Retrieved 2018-11-27.


  17. ^ "Sunil Arora takes over as Chief Election Commissioner, will oversee 2019 polls". 2018-12-02.










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