New Delhi: Harishankar Brahma, the senior- most Election Commissioner in the Election Commission of India and hailing from the North East, was on Thursday appointed the new Chief Election Commissioner to replace V.S. Sampath who relinquished his post on Thursday.
Brahma will assume charge on Friday. A 1975 IAS officer of the Andhra Pradesh cadre, Brahma was born in Assam and received his education in Shillong, having graduated from St. Edmund’s College.
Brahma assumed charge as one of the three election commissioners of India in 2010. After JM Lyngdoh, Brahma is the second officer from the North East to be appointed to this post.
But at the age of 64 Brahma will have a very brief tenure of slightly over three months till April 19 when he turns 65, the upper age limit for the post.
