New Delhi: The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Friday said it will announce the dates of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls on Saturday at 3 pm.
In a separate statement, it also announced that Gyanesh Kumar and Dr Sukhbir Singh Sandhu on Friday assumed charge as Election Commissioners in the Election Commission of India.
In a statement, the ECI said, “Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar welcomed the newly-appointed Election Commissioner’s at Nirvachan Sadan to the action packed and intense twelve weeks ahead. He emphasized the significance of their joining at this historic point, when team ECI is all set to conduct the General Elections 2024 in the world’s largest democracy.”
Gyanesh Kumar and Dr Sukhbir Singh Sandhu are officers from the 1988 batch of the Indian Administrative Service who belonged to the Kerala and Uttarakhand cadre, respectively.
Earlier on Thursday, Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury had criticised the government’s decision to replace the Chief Justice of India with a Union Minister on the selection committee, arguing that the Chief Justice of India should have retained a seat on the committee to select the election commissioners.
He lamented that the legislation enacted last year had rendered the committee’s deliberations a mere formality, given the government’s majority control. He expressed frustration at being presented with a list of 212 names for consideration the previous night, without ample time for scrutiny.
Notably, on March 9, ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, Election Commissioner Arun Goel tendered his resignation, which was accepted by President Droupadi Murmu.
The resignation of Election Commissioner Arun Goel comes amid intense preparations for the Lok Sabha polls by the Election Commission of India.
Goel’s resignation has resulted the Election Commission to be solely under the leadership of Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar, with no other election commissioners.
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