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Sunil Arora is learnt to have been appointed as the next chief election commissioner (CEC), highly-placed sources in the law ministry said Monday. Though a formal notification announcing his appointment is yet to be issued, his name has been cleared by the Centre and sent to Rashtrapati Bhavan, the sources said.
“Yes. His name has been cleared. He is the next CEC. A notification will follow,” a senior functionary said. He will take over on 2 December. The Election Commission will hold the 2019 general election under him. Besides the Lok Sabha polls, Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir, Odisha, Maharashtra, Haryana, Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim are scheduled to be held in 2019.
