His tenure will end in December this year.
Rawat has a short tenure in his new role, but it is likely going to be an eventful one, reports Sahil Makkar.
Some of our leaders were busybusy over the weekend.
After Nasim Zaidi retired as Chief Election Commissioner in July, there was a vacancy in the poll panel.
The Election Commission will hold the 2019 general election under Arora .
Achal Kumar Joti will take over as the head of the Election Commission on July 6.
Om Prakash Rawat, a former Madhya Pradesh cadre IAS officer who till recently was Secretary at the Centre, was on Thursday appointed as the new Election Commissioner.
The officials said they would need around Rs 4,500 crore to buy nearly 12 lakh additional electronic voting machines and an equal number voter-verifiable paper audit trail machines.
He said that the AAP MLAs were issued two notices by the EC but their response was not in the context of the notice served on them.
Opposition leaders believe this entire plan has been put in place to ensure that Mamata Banerjee is kept out of office in West Bengal.
Bihar will have five-phase assembly elections between October 12 and November 5 and counting of votes will take place on November 8.
The poll watchdog faces two Heruclean tasks -- to produce over a million VVPATs in time for the 2019 elections and also iron out manufacturing tweaks in the machines which are already in use.
For successive governments the Election Commission remains a 'holy cow', where unhealthy precedents are allowed to be nurtured since Independence, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
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