Sunil Arora

FORMERTHE COMMISSION

Chief Election Commissioner (former) · IAS, Rajasthan cadre, 1980 batch

11985 – 1993Collector and District Magistrate of Dholpur, Alwar, Nagaur and Jodhpur, Rajasthan
21993 – 1998Principal Staff Officer to the Chief Minister, Rajasthan
32000 – 2005Chairman & Managing Director, Indian Airlines (first two years overlapping with Joint Secretary, Ministry of Civil Aviation)
42005 – 2009Principal Staff Officer to the Chief Minister, Rajasthan
52005 – 2013Additional Chief Secretary (Industries) and Chairman, RIICO, Rajasthan
62013 – 2014Additional Chief Secretary (Home), Government of Rajasthan
72014 – 2015Secretary, Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship
82015 – Apr 2016Secretary, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting (superannuated 30 Apr 2016)
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Time at the Commission

3 yr 7 mo

EC 1 yr 3 mo · CEC 2 yr 4 mo

Selected under

Executive convention

appointed before 2019

Entries on record

15 entries · 7 documented · 4 reported · 4 responses

Selected by

FROM THE PROFILE

Appointed Election Commissioner by the President on 31 Aug 2017 (Ministry of Law & Justice announcement) and took over as CEC on 2 Dec 2018 on the retirement of O.P. Rawat, as the senior Election Commissioner. No selection committee existed then. Before the 2023 Act there was no statute on selection: the Union government, by convention, picked senior serving or retired Secretary-rank officers and the President appointed on its advice, with the senior-most EC normally elevated to CEC (as described by the Supreme Court in Anoop Baranwal, 2 Mar 2023).

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