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State Election Commissioners are independent persons not holding position or office in any Central or State Government organisations [13] Sri A.Shajahan IAS, is the Chief Election Commissioner of Kerala State Election Commission. [14] His period of service will be 5 years or attaining an age of 65 years whichever is earlier.
Gyanesh Kumar (born 27 January 1964) is a 1988-batch [1] retired Indian Administrative Service officer belonging to the Kerala cadre serving as 26th Chief Election Commissioner of India from 19th February 2025 onwards. He is the first CEC to be appointed under the provisions of the 2023 CEC and Other EC Appointment Act.
The Chief Election Commissioner of India (CEC) heads the Election Commission of India, a body constitutionally empowered to conduct free and fair elections.An election commissioner is appointed by the President of India on the recommendation of a three member selection committee headed by the Prime Minister of India and senior most election commissioner is appointed as chief election commissioner.
State Election Commission consists of Chief Electoral Officer [2] and as many members and staff specified as are required by the Acts of respective State Governments. State Election Commissioners are independent persons not holding position or office in any Central or State Government organisations.
The elections for local self-government institutions, such as panchayats and municipalities, are conducted by the Kerala State Election Commission, which is an independent constitutional authority. Panchayat Elections is a term widely used in Kerala, India, for the polls that are held to select the Local Self-government Representatives.
Chief Electoral Officer is a statutory authority created for representing Election Commission of India for conducting elections in states and union territories of India. Constitution of India with introduction of Article 324 made the powers of Chief Electoral Officer(India) independent.
Since 1950, the Election Commission of India was a single member body with only the Chief Election Commissioner.As per The Election Commissioner Amendment Act, 1989, the Commission was made a multi-member body with two additional election commissioners who were appointed to the commission for the first time on 16 October 1989.
Election Commissioner of India Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Chief Election Commissioner .