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Gyanesh Kumar new Chief Election Commissioner

New Delhi, Feb 17 (UNI) Gyanesh Kumar was appointed as the new Chief Election Commissioner on Monday.
The announcement came shortly after a meeting of the Election Committee comprising Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, and Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi, where the Congress leader had given a note of dissent.
Kumar, a 1988-batch IAS officer from Kerala cadre, was part of the Union Home Ministry and helped draft the bill that scrapped Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir in 2019. He is known to be close to Shah.
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EU convenes workshop on preventing, countering violent extremism

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