The Election Commission on Tuesday decided by a majority of 2:1, that dissenting opinions in Model Code of Conduct disputes will not be made part of any final order and will only be included in internal files, as per previous practice. Issue over speeches The issue came up before the full bench comprising Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora and Mr. …
Senior Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa has given dissenting opinions regarding four of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speeches and one of BJP national president Amit Shah. For stringent action As reported, Mr. Lavasa had earlier written to Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora asking why his observations were not recorded in the order passed against BJP leader Gulab Chand Kataria censuring him …
"A dissent in a court of last resort… is an appeal to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of a future day, when a later decision may possibly correct the error into which the dissenting judge believes the court to have been betrayed," said Justice HR Khanna while dissenting with the majority in ADM Jabalpur v Shivakant …
