Final Up to date: March 09, 2024, 21:20 IST
Arun Goel assumed cost as Election Commissioner (EC) of India on November 21, 2022.
Election Commissioner Arun Goel resigns forward of Lok Sabha Elections 2024, leaving Election Fee as a one-member physique underneath CEC Rajiv Kumar
Election Commissioner Arun Goel tendered his resignation on Saturday, simply days earlier than the ballot physique is about to announce the schedule for the Lok Sabha Election 2024. With Goel’s resignation, the Election Fee of India (ECI) is now only a one-member physique headed by the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Rajiv Kumar.
Goel’s departure comes as he had three years left in his tenure. There was already one emptiness for an Election Commissioner. Earlier, Election Commissioner Anup Pandey had retired in February this 12 months.
“In pursuance of clause (1) of Part 11 of The Chief Election Commissioner and different Election Commissioners (Appointment, Circumstances of Service and Time period of Workplace) Act, 2023, the President is happy to simply accept the resignation tendered by Shri Arun Goel, Election Commissioner with impact from the 09th March, 2024,” learn a notification issued by the Union Ministry of Regulation and Justice.
Goel had assumed cost as Election Commissioner (EC) of India on November 21, 2022. Goel, an Indian Administrative Service officer of the 1985 batch, Punjab cadre superannuated as Secretary, Ministry of Heavy Trade, after greater than 37 years of service.
Born on December 7, 1962, in Patiala, he’s M. Sc. (Arithmetic) and was awarded Chancellors Medal of Excellence for being First Class First and File Breaker all through all of the examinations of Punjabi College. He’s Put up-Graduate with a Distinction in Improvement Economics from Churchill School, College of Cambridge, England and has been skilled at John F Kennedy Faculty of Authorities, Harvard College, US.
