HARISHANKAR BRAHMA IAS (1975 AP) TO BE THE NEXT CHIEF ELECTION COMMISSIONER
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HARISHANKAR BRAHMA IAS (1975 AP) TO BE THE NEXT CHIEF ELECTION COMMISSIONER

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NEW DELHI: Harishankar Brahma Former bureaucrat  will be taking over as the Chief Election Commissioner after present CEC Veeravalli Sundaram Sampath retires on Thursday.

A 1975 IAS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre, Brahma (60), who hails from Assam, is a former Union power secretary.

Brahma assumed charge as one of the three election commissioners of India on August 25, 2010.

After J M Lyndogh, Brahma will become the second officer from the northeast to be appointed to this post.

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