23 Sep 2026
Inside the Commission
Indian Express: ECs wrote to Cabinet Secretary over IT oversight changeReportedChecked
Deputation appointment; no appointment order or date was found in public records. The Tribune and National Herald report she joined in 2025.
On 16 April 2026 Election Commissioner Sukhbir Singh Sandhu told senior officers that many communications were going out in the Commission's name without its approval and that all must now have it, citing the 2023 Act; the same day he recorded that the IT division had built new modules without informing him. On 24 April Vivek Joshi issued a similar direction citing Article 324 and the Act.
Notes not public; The Indian Express says it has seen them.