There are three major challenges that the Election Commission of India faces in the conduct of general elections in India: enforcement of the Model Code of Conduct; blurring of lines between news and publicity of candidates and political parties; and monitoring and capping election expenditure by political parties, former election commissioner Ashok Lavasa said at an event on the 2024 …
THE Election Commission of India is intended to be an autonomous body. Ashok Lavasa was the sole member of the Commission who refused to give a clean chit to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah in the matter of electoral process violations. Avny Lavasa Ashok Lavasa’s daughter, Avny Lavasa, who was the Deputy Commissioner of Leh from …
New Delhi: Rejecting the demand of election commissioner Ashok Lavasa, the ‘Full Commission’ of Election Commission of India on Tuesday ruled that dissents and minority views in EC orders with regard to Model Code of Conduct violations will not be made public and only majority view will be announced in the final order. “In the meeting of the Election Commission …
Leh police on Thursday began investigation against Bharatiya Janata Party leaders, including party’s Jammu and Kashmir unit president Ravinder Raina and MLC Vikram Randhawa, after registering FIR in connection with allegations that some journalists were offered bribes after a BJP press conference to influence the parliamentary polls. Lavasa had ordered the inquiry on May 3 after the Leh press club …