 "Former chief election commissioner T N Seshan")
Former chief election commissioner (CEC) and former Cabinet secretary Tirunellai Narayana Iyer Seshan, who ushered in reforms in the country’s electoral process during his tenure as CEC in the 1990s, died of a cardiac arrest on Sunday in Chennai. He was 86.
He was not keeping good health for the past couple of years and he passed away at about 9.30 pm.
Born on December 15, 1932, in Thirunellai, Palakkad district, Kerala, Seshan was the youngest of six siblings in a middle-class family. His father was a lawyer in the district court.
Seshan went to school in Kerala, then studied
