Election Commissioner of India

Election Commissioner of the Republic of India
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Incumbent Syed Nasim Ahmad Zaidi (CEC) A. K. Jyoti Om Prakash Rawat
Government of India
Reports to	Parliament
Seat	Nirvachan Sadan, New Delhi, India
Appointer	President of India
Term length	6 years
Inaugural holder	Sukumar Sen
Website	Election Commission of India

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Election Commissioner of India is a member of Election Commission of India, a body constitutionally empowered to conduct free and fair elections to the national and state legislatures. He is usually a member of the Indian Civil Service and mostly from the Indian Administrative Service.

Until 1989, the commission was a single member body, but later two additional Election Commissioners were added. Thus, the Election Commission currently consists of a Chief Election Commissioner and two Election Commissioners. The decisions of the commission are taken by a majority vote. Nasim Zaidi is the current Chief Election Commissioner and other two Election Commissioners are Achal Kumar Jyoti and Om Prakash Rawat. H.S.Brahma retired on 19th April,2015 . After then Dr.Nasim Zaidi took over as 20th Chief Election Commissioner.

Appointment and removal

The President of India based on a recommendation from the Government of India appoints the Election Commissioners. They have tenure of six years, or up to the age of 65 years, whichever is earlier. The Chief Election Commissioner can be removed from office only through impeachment by Parliament in a manner similar to that of a judge of the Supreme Court. On the other hand, other Election Commissioners can be removed by the President on recommendation of the Chief Election Commissioner.

Compensation

The salary and other conditions of service of the Election Commissioner are determined by the Parliament of India through "Election Commission (Condition of Service of Election Commissions And Transaction of Business) Act, 1991".

List of Election Commissioners

List of Chief Election Commissioners of India
S.No.	Name	From	To
1	Sukumar Sen (First EC)	March 21,1950	December 19,1958
2	Kalyan Sundaram (Longest holding EC)	1958	1967
3	S. P. Sen Verma	1967	1972
4	Dr. Nagendra Singh	1972	1973
5	T. Swaminathan	1973	1977
6	S L Shakdher	1977	1982
7	R.K. Trivedi	1982	1985
8	R.V.S. Peri Sastri	1986	1990
9	Smt V.S. Rama Devi	Nov 1990	Dec 1990
10	T.N. Seshan	Dec 1990	1996 (on leave vacancy of R.V.S. Peri Sastri)
11	M.S. Gill	1996	2001
12	J.M. Lyngdoh	2001	2004
13	T. S. Krishnamurthy	2004	2005
14	B. B. Tandon	2005	2006
15	N. Gopalaswami	2006	2009
16	Navin Chawla	2009	2010
17	S. Y. Quraishi	2010	2012
18	V. S. Sampath	2012	2015
19	Harishankar Brahma	2015	2015
20	Nasim Zaidi	2015	2017

References

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Nasim-Zaidi-takes-over-as-new-chief-election-commissioner/articleshow/46977291.cms

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