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.
For India and the EU, the reliance on the US for security needs and on China for goods and services is associated with greater risks and vulnerability to major disruptions.
RBI data shows personal loans tripled in six years, with rising slippages; real wages halved as middle class uses loans to maintain lifestyle fuelled by social media.
Mechanical engineer & alumnus of IIM-A & IAS France, Kota was General Manager in HAL’s Light Combat Aircraft division. He was selected from a pool of eight candidates.
No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.
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