Chief Election Commissioners Of India

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Chief Election Commissioners Of India

Name Tenure

Sukumar Sen ...................................................................... 21 March 1950-19 December 1958

K.V.K. Sundaram ............................................................... 20 December 1958-30 September 1967

S.P. Sen Verma .................................................................... 1 October 1967-30 September 1972

Dr Nagendra Singh ........................................................... 1 October 1972-6 February 1973

T. Swaminathan ................................................................. 7 February 1973-17 June 1977

S.L. Shakdhar ..................................................................... 18 June 1977-17 June 1982

R.K. Trivedi ......................................................................... 18 June 1982-31 December 1985

R.V.S. Peri Sastri ................................................................. 1 January 1986-25 November 1990

Smt V.S. Rama Devi ........................................................... 26 November 1990-11 December 1990

T.N. Seshan ......................................................................... 12 December 1990-11 December 1996

M.S. Gill ............................................................................... 12 December 1996-13 June 2001

RS,.M. Lyngdoh ...................................................................... 14 June 2001 - 7 February 2004

T.S. Krishna Murthy .......................................................... 8 February 2004 - 15 May 2005

B.B. Tandon......................................................................... 16 May 2005 - 29 June 2006

N. Gopalaswamy ............................................................... 30 June 2006 - 20 April 2009

Navin Chawla .................................................................... 21 April 2009 - 29 July 2010

S.Y. Quraishi ....................................................................... 30 July 2010—10 June 2012

V. S. Sampath ...........................................................................10 June 2012 --15 January 2015

H. S. Brahma..............................................................................15 January 2015--18 April 2015

Nasim Zaidi............................................................................19 April 2015-- 6 July 2017

Achal Kumar Jyoti............................................................................6 July 2017 22 January 2018

Om Prakash Rawat............................................................................23 January 2018 1 December 2018

Sunil Arora............................................................................2 December 2018

Biographical notes

Sukumar Sen

Sukumar Sen
From: March 12, 2019: The Times of India

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Sukumar Sen