Syed Naseem Ahmed Zaidi will be the new Election Commissioner. He is a 1976-batch IAS officer of the Uttar Pradesh cadre. A official communique issued in New Delhi today says he has been appointed in the vacant post in three-member Election Commission, which was caused due to the demitting office by then Chief Election Commissioner SY Qureshi on June 10 of this year.

Sixty-year-old Zaidi superannuated last month as the Civil Aviation Secretary. A native of Uttar Pradesh, Zaidi had earlier worked as Director-General of Civil Aviation and was India's representative in the International Civil Aviation Organisation.