T. N. Seshan

T. N. Seshan
10th Chief Election Commissioner of India
In office 12 December 1990 – 11 December 1996
Prime Minister	Chandra Shekhar P. V. Narasimha Rao Atal Bihari Vajpayee H. D. Deve Gowda
Preceded by	V. S. Ramadevi
Succeeded by	M. S. Gill
18th Cabinet Secretary of India
In office 27 March 1989 – 23 December 1989
Prime Minister	Rajiv Gandhi V.P. Singh
Preceded by	B. G. Deshmukh
Succeeded by	V. C. Pande
Personal details
Born	Tirunellai Narayana Iyer Seshan (1933-05-15)15 May 1933 Palghat, Malabar District, British India (present-day Kerala, India)
Died	10 November 2019(2019-11-10) (aged 86) Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Political party	Indian National Congress (1999)
Spouse	Jayalakshmi Seshan ​ ​ (m. 1959; died 2018)​
Education	Madras Christian College Harvard University
Occupation	Bureaucrat
Awards	Ramon Magsaysay award (1996)

Tirunellai Narayana Iyer Seshan (15 May 1933 – 10 November 2019) was an Indian civil servant, bureaucrat who served with the Indian Administrative Service and as a politician.^[1] After serving in various positions in Madras and in various ministries of the Central Government, he served as the 18th Cabinet Secretary of India in 1989. He was appointed the 10th Chief Election Commissioner of India (1990–96) and became known for his electoral reforms. He won the Ramon Magsaysay Award for government service in 1996. He unsuccessfully contested 1999 Gujarat assembly election from Gandhinagar constituency under Indian National Congress.