Former bureaucrat Arun Goel was on Saturday appointed as Election Commissioner.
A Punjab cadre officer of the 1985 batch, Goel will join Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar and Election Commissioner Anup Chandra Pandey in the poll panel.
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His appointment was announced by the government in a press statement.
Sushil Chandra retired as the chief election commissioner in May this year after which Rajiv Kumar took charge.
