Central Board of Direct Taxation (CBDT) chairman Sushil Chandra on Thursday was appointed as election commissioner.
With his appointment, the EC now has Sunil Arora who was appointed as the Chief Election Commissioner on 2 December, 2018, and Ashok Lavasa and Chandra as fellow commissioners.
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Chandra, an IIT graduate, is a 1980 batch officer of the Indian Revenue Service (Income Tax cadre).
Chandra’s tenure as chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) was to expire in May this year. He has already got two extensions since 2016.