Other officers of the Commission, including Secretary-General Umesh Sinha, DECs, Directors and Senior Principal Secretaries were also present on the occasion.
September 3, 2020A 1984 batch Jharkhand cadre IAS officer, Rajiv Kumar will take charge "with effect from with the date he assumes office vice Ashok Lavasa, Election Commissioner who has resigned with effect from 31st August, 2020," according to a notification by the Ministry of Law and Justice.
August 21, 2020The 62-year-old Lavasa was appointed as the Election Commissioner in January 2018 and had yet to serve two more years to complete his tenure.
August 18, 2020With his appointment, the EC now has Sunil Arora as the Chief Election Commissioner and Ashok Lavasa and Chandra as fellow commissioners.
February 14, 2019The central government has refused to divulge information on appointment to various important posts like the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), Chief Economic Advisor and Election Commissioner, sought under the Right to Information Act, activist Nutan Thakur said on Wednesday. Lucknow-based RTI activist Thakur had sought details on appointments of former Home Secretary Rajiv Mehrishi …
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October 4, 2017Rajiv Mehrishi, who retired as Union Home Secretary on Wednesday, was on Thursday appointed the new Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India and former Information and Broadcasting Secretary Sunil Arora as Election Commissioner. Senior IAS officer Rajiv Gauba took charge as the Union Home Secretary on Thursday. Mehrishi is a 1978-batch Rajasthan cadre Indian …
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August 31, 2017Reacting to Election Commissioner O P Rawat’s remarks that “winning elections at all cost, without ethics, is the new normal in politics”, the Congress on Friday said it stood vindicated on the issue. “We said the same thing during the (August 8) Rajya Sabha elections in Gujarat, wherein we pointed out that Congress MLAs were …
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August 18, 2017The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the Centre as to why there is no enabling law for the appointment of Election Commissioners in the poll panel. The top court agreed to accord final hearing on Public Interest Litigation (PIL) alleging that till now political executives have been appointing Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) and Election Commissioners …
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