He was flown in a craft of Air India - the company which he had helmed between August 2003- December 2003.
It was a sort of homecoming for Sunil Arora - the Rajasthan cadre high profile IAS officer who scaled up the ladder to assume constitutional post of Election Commissioner (EC) - when he landed at the Sanganer airport for the first time in 4 months after taking over as the EC. He was flown in a craft of Air India - the company which he had helmed between August 2003- December 2003.
Arora received a grand welcome at the Airport with senior officials including State Chief Electoral Officer Ashwini Bhagat, Jaipur Collector Siddharth Mahajan and DCP Kunwar Rashtradeep lined up to receive him. He is scheduled to hold a meeting of senior officials to review preparations for the 2018 assembly elections. He will also participate in the function being held in the memory of former chief secretary M L Mehta on Thursday.
Arora, widely acclaimed as a no-nonsense officer, is visiting various states where elections are scheduled in 2018. Those who have worked with Arora are aware that the 1980 batch IAS officer doesn't have any room for slackness. Officials of election commission and collectorate are said to have done their homework well to see Arora off in a good humour.
Arora's career blossomed under the BJP governments - be it Bhairon Singh Shekhawat or Raje government in state or Vajpayee and Narendra Modi regimes at centre, Arora enjoyed plum postings. In the current Modi government Arora was privileged to handle two ministries - Skill Development and later Information & Broadcasting. So when Arora was made Election Commissioner, experts viewed it as a master stroke of Prime Minister Narendra Modi as he is likely to be the Chief Election Commissioner during the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
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