Please answer the following question: Facts: - profession: civil servant - imagesize: 200px - successor: v. s. sampath - predecessor: navin chawla - office: chief election commissioner of india - term end: 10 june 2012 - term start: 30 july 2010 - birth date: 11 june 1947 - name: shahabuddin yaqoob quraishi - nationality: indian - birth place: delhi , india - religion: islam Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of s. y. quraishi .
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shahabuddin yaqoob quraishi -lrb- born 11 june 1947 -rrb- is a former chief election commissioner -lrb- cec -rrb- of india .he was appointed as the cec as the successor to navin chawla on 30 july 2010 .he has also served as a secretary in the ministry of youth affairs and sports .he is an ias officer of the 1971 batch from haryana cadre .he has a ph.d. in communications and social marketing .quraishi became the first muslim to be the cec of india .he demitted office on 10 june 2012 .he now pursues his interests in academics by teaching & mentoring at cluster innovation centre , university of delhi in the capacity of honorary professor at the centre .while responding to karan thapar on the '' devil 's advocate '' programme on the television channel cnn-ibn , he opposed the ideas of '' right to recall '' and '' right to reject '' advocated by anna hazare as not possible in india .however after some time in a tv interview he said that right to reject can be considered .