Bureaucracy’s Unique Power Couple Sets a National Record

New Delhi (02.10.2025): In a rare achievement in the Indian Administrative Service, Alka Tiwari (IAS: 1988), who retired as the Chief Secretary of Jharkhand on Tuesday, has immediately stepped into the Constitutional role of the State Election Commissioner , a post previously held by her husband, Devendra Kumar Tiwari. The , which came swiftly on , after she demitted office, places the Tiwari couple in a : they are the in the country's bureaucracy to have consecutively occupied both of the —the top administrative post of and the key electoral oversight role of the . She retired on , handing over the administrative reins of the state to (IAS: 1993). The very next day, a notification was issued announcing her appointment as the State Election Commissioner under Article 243 of