Last Updated: March 09, 2024, 21:36 IST
Arun Goel assumed charge as Election Commissioner (EC) of India on November 21, 2022.
Election Commissioner Arun Goel resigns ahead of Lok Sabha Elections 2024, leaving Election Commission as a one-member body under CEC Rajiv Kumar
Election Commissioner Arun Goel tendered his resignation on Saturday, just days before the poll body is set to announce the schedule for the Lok Sabha Election 2024. With Goel’s resignation, the Election Commission of India (ECI) is now just a one-member body headed by the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Rajiv Kumar. Goel’s departure comes as he had three years left in his tenure.
There was already one vacancy for an Election Commissioner in the three-member body after Election Commissioner Anup Pandey retired in February this year. “In pursuance of clause (1) of Section 11 of The Chief Election Commissioner and other Election Commissioners (Appointment, Conditions of Service and Term of Office) Act, 2023, the President is pleased to accept the resignation tendered by Shri Arun Goel, Election Commissioner with effect from the 09th March 2024,” read a notification issued by the Union Ministry of Law and Justice.
Goel had assumed charge as Election Commissioner (EC) of India on November 21, 2022. Goel, an Indian Administrative Service officer of the 1985 batch, Punjab cadre superannuated as Secretary, of the Ministry of Heavy Industry, after more than 37 years of service.
Born on December 7, 1962, in Patiala, he has an M.Sc. (Mathematics) and was awarded the Chancellors Medal of Excellence for being First Class First and Record Breaker throughout all the examinations of Punjabi University. He is a Post-Graduate with a Distinction in Development Economics from Churchill College, University of Cambridge, England and has been trained at John F Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, US.
