{"id":14812,"date":"2021-04-12T21:00:33","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T15:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/?p=14812"},"modified":"2021-04-12T21:00:33","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T15:30:33","slug":"sushil-chandra-to-take-over-as-new-chief-of-election-commission-on-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/sushil-chandra-to-take-over-as-new-chief-of-election-commission-on-tuesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Sushil Chandra to take over as new chief of Election Commission on Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sushil Chandra has been appointed the new Chief Election Commissioner of India. He will take charge on Tuesday from the former CEC Sunil Arora. Chandra will serve as the CEC till May 14, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Chandra was appointed Election Commissioner in February 2019, just ahead of the Lok Sabha election. During his term in office, Chandra will oversee elections in five states \u2013 Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Goa, Uttarakhand and Manipur, apart from looking at the current elections, including in West Bengal till its conclusion on April 29. Results in five states where polls are either ongoing or just concluded \u2013 Kerala, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Assam \u2013 will be out on May 2.<\/p>\n<p>Before being appointed in the Election Commission, Sushil Chandra was chairperson of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sushil Chandra has been appointed the new Chief Election Commissioner of India. He will take charge on Tuesday from the former CEC&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1236,"featured_media":14813,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_seo_keywords":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[387,752,1550,201,583],"class_list":["post-14812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nation","tag-assembly-elections-2021","tag-cec-sunil-arora","tag-cec-sushil-chandra","tag-election-commission","tag-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1236"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}