Ashok Lavasa

Former Finance Secretary Rajiv Kumar Appointed Election Commissioner

India News | Reported by Arvind Gunasekar, Edited by Debanish Achom | Friday August 21, 2020

Former Finance Secretary Rajiv Kumar has been appointed Election Commissioner, the Law Ministry said in notification on Friday night. Mr Kumar will take charge the day Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa leaves his office on August 31. The outgoing Election Commissioner is joining Asian Development Bank as its vice president.

Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa Quits To Join Asian Development Bank

India News | Reported by A Vaidyanathan, Edited by Debanish Achom | Tuesday August 18, 2020

Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa has resigned to join Asian Development Bank as vice president. The resignation came a month after the multilateral funding agency on July 15 named him its next vice president.

Asian Development Bank Appoints Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa As Vice President

Business | Press Trust of India | Wednesday July 15, 2020

Mr Lavasa has been appointed as the vice-president for private sector operations and public-private partnerships

Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa To Quit, Join Asian Development Bank

India News | Reported by A Vaidyanathan, Edited by Chandrashekar Srinivasan | Wednesday July 15, 2020

Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa has been appointed as a Vice President of the Asian Development Bank, the multilateral funding agency announced Wednesday

Election Body Takes Note Of How South Korea Held Poll Amid Virus Outbreak

India News | Press Trust of India | Thursday April 23, 2020

The Election Commission has taken note of changes made by South Korea in procedures while holding its parliamentary polls amid the coronavirus outbreak and said it will consider modifications as required and suited to the Indian context wherever elections need to be held in this kind of pandemic environment.

Election Body Chief Sunil Arora To Take 30% Salary Cut To Fund COVID-19 Fight

India News | Press Trust of India | Monday April 13, 2020

Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora and fellow commissioners Ashok Lavasa and Sushil Chandra have decided to take a voluntary 30 per cent cut in their basic salaries for one year to fund fight against COVID-19.

"Inspires Us All": Raghuram Rajan On Deepika Padukone's JNU Visit

India News | Press Trust of India | Saturday January 11, 2020

Backing Deepika Padukone, former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan said the actress's silent protest against JNU violence and Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa doing his duty impartially despite harassment to his family showed that for some people, truth, freedom, and justice are not just lofty words, but ideals worth sacrificing for.

Honesty Is "Tortuous", Writes Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa

India News | Edited by Anindita Sanyal | Saturday December 28, 2019

After months of alleged harassment by government agencies, Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa has said the path to honesty "often turns out to be tortuous".

Replace Party Symbols On Voting Machines With Candidate Info: BJP Leader

India News | Indo-Asian News Service | Thursday October 17, 2019

Bharatiya Janata Party leader Ashwini Upadhyay recently submitted a 21-page petition to Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora and his deputies Ashok Lavasa and Sushil Chandra urging them to use their plenary powers under Article 324 to replace party symbols on voting machines and ballot papers with candidate details.

"Punishing Neutral Referee": Congress On IT Notice To Ashok Lavasa's Wife

India News | Indo-Asian News Service | Tuesday September 24, 2019

A day after the Income Tax Department issued a notice to Novel Singhal, wife of Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa, referring to her earnings while working as an independent director of some companies, the Congress slammed the BJP government saying it was punishing the "neutral referee".

Income Tax Notice To Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa's Wife

India News | Edited by Anindita Sanyal | Tuesday September 24, 2019

A notice has been sent to Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa's wife Novel S Lavasa for discrepancies in income tax filings, sources told NDTV. The Income Tax department has sought information "related to foreign exchange", the sources said.

Election 2019 - Dissent In Poll Code Violation Cases Won't Be Made Public: Election Commission

India News | Reported by A Vaidyanathan, Edited by Anuj Pant | Tuesday May 21, 2019

Dissent and minority views in Election Commission's orders in cases of Model Code of Conduct violations would not be made public, the poll panel said today, rejecting the demand of Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa.

Elections 2019 - "Avoidable": Top Election Officer Denies Reports Of Rift Over Poll Code

India News | Edited by Debanish Achom | Saturday May 18, 2019

Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora today said reports of Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa skipping meetings related to the poll code violations - as he was not allowed to record his dissent - are "unsavoury" and "avoidable".

Lok Sabha Election 2019 Live Updates: Rahul Gandhi Meets Chandrababu Naidu

India News | Edited by Abhimanyu Bose | Saturday May 18, 2019

A day before the final phase of the marathon national election, alliance talks continue between opposition leaders.

Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa Opts Out Of Meetings Over Clean Chits

India News | Reported by Arvind Gunasekar, Sreenivasan Jain, Edited by Debanish Achom | Saturday May 18, 2019

Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa has skippedmeetings of the Election Commission on deciding violations of the Model Code over what he claimed was his "minority decisions going unrecorded", NDTV has learnt. The Election Commission had cleared Prime Minister Narendra Modi of any poll code violation in six instances.