Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar has been in the spotlight after the abrupt resignation of Election Commissioner Arun Goel, who was scheduled to succeed Mr. Kumar next year as CEC. Mr. Kumar superannuated as Finance Secretary in February 2020 and in less than 45 days, he was appointed as the chief of the Public Enterprises Selection Board — the body …
Sukumar Sen, India’s first chief election commissioner and conducted the first general elections of Independent India in 1951-52. The first Sukumar Sen Memorial Lecture, instituted by the Election Commission of India in memory of the first chief election commissioner of the country was delivered on January 23 by former President Pranab Mukherjee. With the adoption of the principle of Universal …
