{"id":306151,"date":"2018-11-27T04:46:50","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T04:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=306151"},"modified":"2018-11-27T04:46:50","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T04:46:50","slug":"sunil-arora-appointed-as-new-chief-election-commissioner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/sunil-arora-appointed-as-new-chief-election-commissioner\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunil Arora appointed as new Chief Election Commissioner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-306152 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/sunil-arora-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"497\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/sunil-arora-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/sunil-arora-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/sunil-arora-696x392.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/sunil-arora-746x420.jpg 746w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/sunil-arora.jpg 885w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">President Ramnath Kovind has cleared the appointment of Sunil Arora as the new chief election commissioner, sources said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He will take over the post from OP Rawat on December 2.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A former bureaucrat, Arora was appointed to the election body in\u00a0September 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This came amid the ongoing assembly election in five states while Arora&#8217;s accession will be immediately followed by elections in Telangana and Rajasthan on December 7.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Arora, a former secretary in the ministry of information and broadcasting, has also served as the secretary in the ministry of skill development and entrepreneurship.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A 1980 batch IAS officer of the Rajasthan cadre, Arora has worked in ministries and departments such as Textiles, Finance and Planning Commission. He had also served as Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Civil Aviation.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Ramnath Kovind has cleared the appointment of Sunil Arora as the new chief election commissioner, sources said. He will take over the post from OP Rawat on December 2. A former bureaucrat, Arora was appointed to the election body in\u00a0September 2017. This came amid the ongoing assembly election in five states while Arora&#8217;s accession [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":306152,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[9908,9907,9909,9819,9906],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306151"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306153,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306151\/revisions\/306153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/306152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}