Ashok Lavasa

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  Why Election Commissioner Arun Goel Resigned Weeks Before 2024 Polls

  Election Commissioner Arun Goel resigned on Saturday just days before the anticipated announcement of the schedule for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

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  "If Election Commissioner Is Asked To Take On PM...": Supreme Court To Centre

  Court spoke of "an Election Commissioner opting out of the commission", though it did not take names; and said "every government appoints a yes man"

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  Former Finance Secretary Rajiv Kumar Appointed Election Commissioner

  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.

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  Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa Quits To Join Asian Development Bank

  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.

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  Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa To Quit, Join Asian Development Bank

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

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

  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.

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

  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.

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

  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.

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  Honesty Is "Tortuous", Writes Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa

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

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

  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.

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

  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".

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  Income Tax Notice To Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa's Wife

  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.

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

  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.

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

  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".

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

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