(2) Om Prakash Rawat has been appointed as the new Chief Election Commissioner (CEC). He will succeed A.K. Joti on January 23, 2018 and will have tenure of almost a year till his retirement in December 2018. Mr. Rawat will oversee the elections in Tripura, Meghalaya and Nagaland scheduled for next month and the polls of the crucial States like Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh