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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

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.