President Ram Nath Kovind has appointed Sunil Arora as the new Chief Election Commissioner (CEC). He is scheduled to take over on December 2,a day after incumbent Om Prakash Rawat retires.
Arora also previously filled in as the Election Commissioner in September, when CEC Nasim Zaidi retired last year.
Arora is a 1980-batch IAS officer of the Rajasthan cadre. He seved as the skill development secretary before he was being appointed as the top bureaucrat in the I&B Ministry. He has also worked in ministries and departments such as Finance, Textiles and Planning Commission and was also CMD of Indian Airlines for 5 years.
Arora was one of the most trusted officers of Vasundhara Raje and was her principal secretary from 2005 to 2008., when she was CM of Rajasthan.