During his stint at Union Home Ministries, Kumar, who played an important role in implementing the decision following the abolition of Article 370 of the Jammu and Kashmir constitution, has now joined the election committee member on March 15, 2024. I was in charge.
His appointment comes hours after Congress asked the government to postpone a decision on the new CEC until the Supreme Court concluded a hearing on a petition challenging the composition of the selection committee. .
The parliamentary demands were raised by the opposition leaders of Lok Sabah Rahul Gandhi during a meeting of the selection committee chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, sources said.
The meeting took place at the Prime Minister’s South Block office. Besides Modi and Gandhi, Home Minister Amit Shah is the third member of the selection panel.
Kumar is a 1988 executive IAS officer of Bach Kerala. After completing B.Tech in civil engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, he studied business finance at ICFAI in India and environmental economics at Harvard University, USA.
In addition to keeping other posts in the Kerala government, he has worked as an assistant collector for Ernakulam, a sub-collector of Adore, the Managing Director of Kerala Development Corporation, SC/ST, mayor of Cochin Corporation. Ta.
As a secretary to the Kerala government, Kumar handled a variety of departments, including financial resources, rapid projects and the Public Works Department.
In the Indian government, he has extensive experience working as a joint secretary of the Ministry of Defense, a joint secretary and additional director of the Ministry of Home Affairs. He served as a supermarket on January 31, 2024.
