Gyanesh Kumar

Gyanesh Kumar
Gyanesh Kumar
	Kumar in 2025.
Chief Election Commissioner of India
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 19 February 2025
Appointed by	Droupadi Murmu
Preceded by	Rajiv Kumar
Election Commissioner of India
	In office; 14 March 2024 – 18 February 2025 Serving with Sukhbir Singh Sandhu
Chief Election Commissioner	Rajiv Kumar
Preceded by	Anup Chandra Pandey
Succeeded by	Vivek Joshi
Cooperation Secretary of India
	In office; 3 May 2022 – 31 January 2024
Minister	Amit Shah
Preceded by	Devendra Kumar Singh
Succeeded by	Ashish Kumar Bhutani
Parliamentary Affairs Secretary of India
	In office; 1 May 2021 – 2 May 2022
Minister	Prahlad Joshi
Preceded by	R. S. Shukla
Succeeded by	Gudey Srinivas
Personal details
Born	27 January 1964; Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India
Alma mater	IIT Kanpur (BTech); Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India (Business finance); Harvard University (Environmental economics);

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Gyanesh Kumar (born 27 January 1964) is the current chief election commissioner of India, and the first to be appointed under the Chief Election Commissioner and Other Election Commissioners (Appointment, Conditions of Service and Term of Office) Act, 2023. He has previously served as an election commissioner and as an IAS officer.

He came under scrutiny during the 2025 Indian electoral controversy, where the Election Commission of India (ECI) was accused of collusion with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and of having engaged in electoral fraud in the 2024 Indian general election.