{"id":242533,"date":"2025-02-19T19:54:07","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T19:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/19\/cec-commissioners-to-serve-longest-stint-in-two-decades\/"},"modified":"2025-02-19T19:54:07","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T19:54:07","slug":"cec-commissioners-to-serve-longest-stint-in-two-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/19\/cec-commissioners-to-serve-longest-stint-in-two-decades\/","title":{"rendered":"CEC, Commissioners to serve longest stint in two decades"},"content":{"rendered":"
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New Chief Election Commissioner<\/a> Gyanesh Kumar is set to be the first CEC since 2004 to serve a near four year long term.After M S Gill, the 11th CEC, who helmed the poll panel for four years and 69 days (12\/12\/1996-13\/06\/2001), no CEC has served even a three-year long term.<\/p>\n

What makes team CEC unique this time is another factor- this will probably be one of the few Commission teams which will stay undisturbed for a good 3.5 years- right until mid 2028 when Election Commissioner Sukhbir Sandhu<\/a> retires.<\/p>\n

While CEC Kumar retires in January 2029, new Election Commissioner Vivek Joshi<\/a> will stay in office right until 2030.<\/p>\n

This will allow a reasonably long term to the current team which will hold assembly elections across nearly 16 states by July 2028 itself.<\/p>\n


Seldom has team EC stayed unchanged for such a long period. Data shows appointments of new election commissioners almost every year to alternate years at best.Last few years offer a good insight. If Sandhu and Gyanesh Kumar<\/a> were brought in as ECs in March 2024, Arun Goel was brought in 2022 while Anup Pandey and Rajiv Kumar<\/a> came into the poll panel in 2021. Before that Sushil Chandra and Ashok Lavasa were inducted as ECs in 2019 and 2018 respectively.<\/p>\n

The CEC terms over the last two decades, offer even greater insight into the frequent changes effected at the national poll panel.<\/p>\n

The outgoing CEC Rajiv Kumar was at the top job for only 2 years, 279 days.<\/p>\n

In fact, Following Gill’s retirement in 2001, among the 15 CECs that have followed- only J M Lyngdoh, N Gopalswami, V S Sampath, Nasim Zaidi, Sunil Arora and Rajiv Kumar served at the top post for more than two years- but short of even a three-year term.<\/p>\n

Incidentally, amid hearings on the appointments of CECs, the SC rued that hardly any CEC completed the expected six years term.<\/p>\n

Under the 10-year UPA government, there were six CECs and in the current NDA government’s eight years, there have been eight CECs, it was pointed out.<\/p>\n

Factor this- the shortest term was served in 2015 by H S Brahma who served as CEC only from January to April followed by A K Joti who helmed the panel for 200 odd days only to be followed by O P Rawat who was CEC from lateJanuary to December 1, in 2018.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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New Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar is set to be the first CEC since 2004 to serve a near four year long term.After M S Gill, the 11th CEC, who helmed the poll panel for four years and 69 days (12\/12\/1996-13\/06\/2001), no CEC has served even a three-year long term. What makes team CEC unique […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/msid-118397265,imgsize-92340.cms","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[602],"tags":[2330,188618,2448,64550,11529,1740,61774,24726,3103,2626,1730,22127,188617,94613],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242533"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242535,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242533\/revisions\/242535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}