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Tuesday, September 23, 2025
TopicAshok Lavasa

Topic: Ashok Lavasa

Now, ED probes Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa’s son Abir

Ashok Lavasa's son Abir Lavasa is the director of Nourish Organic Foods Pvt. Ltd, which is being probed by the ED for alleged violation of foreign exchange laws.

Tax scrutiny, model code dissent, taking on BJP leaders – controversy has followed Lavasas

Since his dissent during Lok Sabha elections, members of Ashok Lavasa’s family have been in the news. Now his wife, son and sister are under I-T scanner.

EC refuses to disclose Ashok Lavasa’s dissent note, cites danger to life of individual

The Election Commission turned down an RTI request for commissioner Lavasa's dissent notes pertaining to model code violations by PM Modi and Amit Shah.

‘There is a time to speak up and be quiet’: CEC Sunil Arora on Ashok Lavasa’s public dissent

Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora finally spoke about fellow election commissioner Ashok Lavasa dissenting on the clean chits given to Narendra Modi and Amit Shah during model code of conduct.

2019 Lok Sabha polls couldn’t have been fairer as far as Election Commission is concerned

While the EC continued to operate by old rules, BJP made 2019 elections more presidential, media-centric and money-fuelled.

EC decides not to record dissent view in poll code violations, overrules Ashok Lavasa

CEC Sunil Arora and commissioner Sushil Chandra overrule Ashok Lavasa's view that not recording dissent in model code violations renders minority view meaningless. New Delhi:...

Election Commission can learn from Supreme Court on what to do when there’s dissent within

The content of Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa’s dissent note against PM Modi is less important than making it part of public records.

Left ‘irrelevant, meaningless’, dissenting EC Ashok Lavasa boycotts poll panel meets

Ashok Lavasa was the sole Election Commissioner who dissented with the clean chit given to PM Modi this month in multiple cases of alleged model code violations.

Both EC Lavasa & Justice Chandrachud couldn’t change outcomes, but dissent is dharma

Lavasa is next in line to become CEC and Justice Chandrachud a future CJI. While difficult, a vindictive govt or chief justice can damage their prospects.

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Bads of Bollywood can’t get more brazenly nepo. The joke’s on us

After watching the most discussed series on Netflix, I was planning to write an asterisk-heavy column. As a tribute to the asterisks in its...

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

China navy achieves breakthrough with new fighter jet launch system. What are electromagnetic catapults

China’s most advanced aircraft carrier—Fujian—uses electromagnetic catapults, a core component of future aircraft carriers.

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.