Sunil Arora

The Election Commission said in a statement on Tuesday that Arora was invited to join the International IDEA's board of advisers.

He will retire in May 2022, having overseen the Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Goa, Uttarakhand and Manipur Assembly elections, leaving it to others to conduct the next general election due 2024

Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora said that observers in poll-bound states of Assam, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Union Territory of Puducherry are being monitored closely by the EC

In poll bound states, the central police forces would play a greater role as part of measures to ensure fair polls, Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora said

The chief election commissioner and fellow election commissioners announce schedule for the Lok Sabha and assembly polls

Arora said EC Secretary General Umesh Sinha will issue a press release of the schedule the same evening based on the decision taken at the poll watchdog

Arora also said the decision to hold the elections in the state, where the term of the assembly ends on November 29, is "a leap of faith and not a leap in the dark"

The Election Commission would take a decision in the next few days to visit Bihar where elections are likely to be held later this year amid the COVID-19 pandemic, CEC Sunil Arora said

Months after the bifurcation of the state of Jammu and Kashmir the Centre has begun moving to start the delimitation of Jammu and Kashmir

A Commission spokesperson said following a request from the government, Arora named Chandra as his nominee for the proposed commission

The CEC lamented that the day-to-day dialogue is becoming "more coarse " and it should be "avoided"

He said simultaneous elections were in practice in the country till 1967, before a "cyclic imbalance" was created due to dissolution of some state assemblies, among other reasons.

The task of monitoring banking channels will be carried out by the financial intelligence unit of the Income Tax department

In an unprecedented move, Arora came out with a statement on the differences coming out in open, saying the episode was "unsavoury" and "avoidable"

He also said in the last meeting of the commission on May 14, it was "unanimously" decided to form groups to deliberate issues which arose in the course of conduct of Lok Sabha elections

Sunil Arora replaced OP Rawat, who retired on Saturday

The former IAS officer's wide ranging experience and reputation for decisiveness and circumspection could stand him in good stead as he readies for the 2019 polls

Arora tells A K Bhattacharya why he still can't come to terms with the Air India-Indian Airlines merger and that voters are too smart to be won over by freebies before the polls

Nasim Zaidi retired as Chief Election Commissioner in July