The Ministry of Law and Justice has on Thursday announced the appointments of Gyanesh Kumar, IAS (Red.) and Dr. Sukhbir Singh Sandhu, IAS(Retd.) as Election Commissioners in the Election Commission of India. The High Level Committee that elected the ECs is chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the members included Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Leader of Opposition, Congress’ Adhir Ranjan Chowdhary.

With the resignation of Arun Goel last week, the Election Commission of India was left with only one member when there should have been three. Anup Pandey had retired from his post just last month.