Retd. IAS officers Dr. Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Gyanesh Kumar have been selected as the new election commissioners by a panel chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The committee held a meeting to select the ECs as two positions fell vacant after the retirement of Anup Chandra Pandey in February and Arun Goel's resignation last week. Sukhbir Singh had served as Chief Secretary of Uttarakhand while Mr. Gyanesh Kumar secretary in the ministry of cooperation led by Amit Shah.