The former election commissioner listed 3 major challenges to 'free and fair' elections: enforcing model code of conduct, handling media, and controlling expenditure of parties.
Published by HarperCollins India, ‘An Ordinary Life: Portrait of an Indian Generation’ by Ashok Lavasa will be released on 31 July on ThePrint’s ‘Softcover’.
In ‘An Ordinary Life’, former Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa writes about his father Udai Singh and the moral compass that guided him in a rapidly changing India.
The election commissioners should have controlled the madness in West Bengal, but their partisan attitude has only strengthened the negative impression about civil services.
Ashok Lavasa was next in line to be Chief Election Commission. He had courted controversy for dissenting against clean chits to Modi & Shah in 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa hasn’t said a word about controversies involving him & his family. But he’s been tweeting regularly on a range of issues.
Canada faces serious foreign interference issues, but these challenges must not be weaponized to unfairly target friendly and important allies like India.
In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.
Among 19 Indian firms sanctioned by US Treasury Dept was Lokesh Machines Ltd accused of coordinating with 'Russian defence procurement agent to import Italy-origin CNC machines'.
While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.
Read carefully what Mr.Ashok Lavasa says and admit same time on the three main challanges.Butcdoes he not see for himself how the model code of conduct(not sure if that be a written document) is being opened trampled by the BJP in asking for votes in the name of RAM.What is the difficulty in adding 100% vvpat and allow the voter to see in the vvpat slip if the vote cast is indded correct and then drop it in a box.
Has Mr Ashok Lavasa not found kiddish reply given by the ECI in the hon’ble SC during hearing on EVM’s.And finally can he vouch for sure that EVM’s can not be tempered
Read carefully what Mr.Ashok Lavasa says and admit same time on the three main challanges.Butcdoes he not see for himself how the model code of conduct(not sure if that be a written document) is being opened trampled by the BJP in asking for votes in the name of RAM.What is the difficulty in adding 100% vvpat and allow the voter to see in the vvpat slip if the vote cast is indded correct and then drop it in a box.
Has Mr Ashok Lavasa not found kiddish reply given by the ECI in the hon’ble SC during hearing on EVM’s.And finally can he vouch for sure that EVM’s can not be tempered