New Delhi, Feb. 18 -- The Central government on Monday announced the appointment of Gyanesh Kumar as the new Chief Election Commissioner (CEC). He will be replacing Rajiv Kumar. Gyanesh Kumar is a 1988-batch IAS officer from the Kerala cadre and is senior to the two other commissioners on the three-member panel that was led by Rajiv Kumar.

The other commissioner on the panel is Sukhbir Singh Sandhu, an officer from the Uttarakhand cadre and Vivek Joshi. The government also announced the appointment of Vivek Joshi as Election Commissioner. Joshi has been the former Registrar General of India and Census Commissioner. Earlier, a three-member selection committee headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi met on Monday to pick the successor of ou...