Sukhbir Sandhu, Gyanesh Kumar elected as new election commissioner, claims Congress' Adhir Ranjan

Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, the Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, on Thursday claimed that bureaucrats Gyanesh Kumar and Sukhbir Sandhu were appointed as the election commissioners ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. The government is yet to make an official announcement on the same.

He made the comments after a meeting of a three-member high-level selection board led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to select two election commissioners was held earlier today. Chowdhury is one of the three members of the panel appointed to pick the poll officers.