Sukumar Sen, India’s first chief election commissioner and conducted the first general elections of Independent India in 1951-52. The first Sukumar Sen Memorial Lecture, instituted by the Election Commission of India in memory of the first chief election commissioner of the country was delivered on January 23 by former President Pranab Mukherjee. With the adoption of the principle of Universal …
New Delhi, May 18 Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa has decided to stay away from the meetings related to the Model Code of Conduct due to his dissent on the clean chit given to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP President Amit Shah, sources said. Election Commissioner Lavasa is learnt to have written a letter to Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora …