PM-led panel to meet Wednesday to select new election commissioner
New Delhi, Feb 6 (PTI): A committee headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet here on Wednesday to select a candidate for the post of election commissioner, sources said. A vacancy will arise in the three-member poll panel when Election Commissioner Anup Chandra Pandey demits office on February 14. According to the Chief Election Commissioner and Other Election Commissioners (Appointment, Conditions of Service and Term of Office) Act, a search committee headed by the law minister and comprising two Union secretaries will short-list five candidates for the consideration of the prime minister-led selection committee. A Union minister nominated by