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TopicAshok Lavasa

Topic: Ashok Lavasa

Ashok Lavasa warns ‘heightened expectations’ from EC leads to disappointment

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.

New book by former EC Lavasa aims to disseminate ‘grounded wisdom’ of ordinary Indian lives

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’.

Honesty and truth are not merely ideals. They form the survival kit of many: Ashok Lavasa

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.

Did Ashok Lavasa case change it all for EC? Why India needs a TN Seshan: Ex-IAS officer

The election commissioners should have controlled the madness in West Bengal, but their partisan attitude has only strengthened the negative impression about civil services.

Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa resigns, set to join ADB

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.

Ashok Lavasa, in line to be next EC chief, appointed Asian Development Bank VP

Ashok Lavasa, a former finance secretary, was in line to become the next chief election commissioner in 2021.

Guha on ‘harmoniser’ Gandhi, Lavasa calls India’s first elections ‘fateful experiment’

The best of the day’s opinion, chosen and curated by ThePrint’s top editors.

Path to honesty is tortuous, sometimes damaging: Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa

Honesty always comes with a price, Ashok Lavasa writes in The Indian Express. His family has been under scanner for alleged tax evasions.

Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa’s son quits job over ED probe, wife to resign as well

Abir and Novel Lavasa are said to have taken the decisions in the ‘larger interest of the firms they serve’.

Ethics, transparency, Gandhi — the profound issues EC Ashok Lavasa has been tweeting about

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.

On Camera

India needs a clear Balochistan strategy. ‘Enemy of my enemy’ approach won’t work

Confronting only secular insurgents in Pakistan, while overlooking jihadist groups operating from Iran, will do little to change the broader strategic equilibrium. History underlines this point.

Easy loans, uneasy ‘debt traps’. Women harassed by private lenders ask ‘who will restore lost dignity?’

A public meeting, where the women voiced their protest, took place this month in Delhi, grounded on the findings of an AIDWA survey, covering 9,000 women borrowers.

Post-Sindoor, joint doctrine tasks Special Forces with fighting info warfare & countering propaganda

Joint Doctrine for Special Forces Operations, released Wednesday, also outlines plans for the future expansion of AFSOD and the creation of Joint Service Training Institutes.

That Oval Office picture for ages deserves closer Indian reading, with a geopolitical lens

Putin sees this as a victory. Europeans have decided to deal with Trump on his terms for the sake of the larger Western alliance. We look at the lessons for us in India.