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The Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) of India Rajiv Kumar will be coming to Assam on March 26 to oversee the constituency delimitation process, said an official statement. The CEC along with election commissioners Anup Pandey and Arun Goel will be on a three-day visit to the state and will hold discussions with political parties regarding the re-determination of the constituencies. “The Election Commission of India has been entrusted for the delimitation of Assembly and Parliamentary Constituencies of the State of Assam. In this context, the Commission (Sh. Rajiv Kumar, Hon’ble CEC, Sh. Anup Chandra Pandey, Hon’ble EC, and Sh. Arun Goel, Hon’ble EC) has decided to visit the State of Assam from 26th March 2023 to 28th March 2023 for knowing the ground reality and expectations of the stakeholders/general public from the Commission on the ongoing delimitation exercise in the State of Assam”, the statement added. The Chief Election Commissioner will be addressing a press conference on March 28 after holding discussions with political parties and other regional organizations on March 27. “In this regard, Hon'ble Commission would interact with Recognized National and State political parties on 27.03.2023 from 09:00 AM to 12:00 Noon at Radisson Blu Hotel, Guwahati, and with public representatives, civil societies, and social organizations on 27.03.2023 from 01:00 PM onwards at Radisson Blu Hotel, Guwahati”, added the press note. Also read :

Arun Goel, a former Punjab-cadre IAS officer of the 1985 batch, was scheduled to retire as Secretary, Ministry of Heavy Industries, on December 31. However, barely six weeks ahead of his superannuation, Mr. Goel sought voluntary retirement from service (VRS) and it was approved on November 18. The next day, “The President is pleased to appoint Arun Goel, IAS (Retd.) as the Election Commissioner in the Election Commission with effect from the date he assumes the office,” announced Kiren Rijiju, the Union Law and Justice Minister, on Twitter. In line to be EC In the Election Commission of India, which conducts the Assembly and Lok Sabha elections, Mr. Goel will be in line to be the next Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) when the incumbent, Rajiv Kumar, retires in February 2025. Mr. Goel will be in office till December 2027. Before he was moved from the Ministry of Heavy Industries, Mr. Goel served as Secretary, Culture from May 2018 to December 2019. In over a decade at the Centre in various posts, Mr. Goel served as Joint Secretary in the Department of Revenue, a coveted post for any IAS officer, and then as Vice-Chairman of the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) during the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) rule. However, he was shunted out from the DDA over alleged differences with the Ministry of Urban Affairs, which exercises the administrative control over the authority. According to several officials who worked with him, Mr. Goel is a “nice, soft-spoken and polite” offi...

Supreme Court calls out Centre over short tenures of Chief Election Commissioners Centre paying mere ‘lip-service’ to independence of poll panel, evident in the way Chief Election Commissioners have had a term of just a few hundred days since 2004, says Justice Joseph November 22, 2022 06:10 pm | Updated November 23, 2022 12:54 pm IST - NEW DELHI The Supreme Court on Tuesday said the government pays mere “lip-service” to the independence of “Their (CECs) tenure is highly truncated and known from the very beginning… In this way, this so-called independence that you pay lip-service to, I am sorry to say, is completely destroyed by getting this kind of a term,” Justice K.M. Joseph, heading a Constitution Bench, addressed the Union government. Rajiv Kumar takes charge as 25th Chief Election Commissioner, says EC won’t shy away from tough calls Justice Joseph said the previous UPA government had six CECs in just eight years. “After the present government took over, from 2015 to 2022, for seven years, we have had eight CECs!” Justice Joseph, leading a five-judge Bench, addressed Attorney General R. Venkataramani, appearing for the government. Justice Joseph said successive governments, particularly after 2004, have “picked” people whom it knew would “never ever” get close to the full term of six years prescribed under the Election Commission (Conditions of Service of Election Commissioners and Transaction of Business) Act of 1991. Section 4 of the 1991 Act says the term of a CEC...