Tag: Om Prakash Rawat

Election Commission’s delayed response questionable: Former CEC Om Prakash Rawat

In an interview to VIJAY THAKUR over phone, Rawat spoke on a range of issues concerning the ECI and polls.

May 18, 2019

Ensure fair voting in Tripura, Meghalaya, Nagaland: Election Commission

 Chief Election Commissioner Om Prakash Rawat on Friday asked the election machinery in Tripura, Meghalaya and Nagaland to be “fearless and unbiased” to ensure fair voting during the assembly elections. While polling in Tripura will be held on February 18, Meghalaya and Nagaland will go to the polls on February 27. “All the three states...

February 16, 2018

Election Commission team to visit Meghalaya

An Election Commission (EC) team led by Chief Election Commissioner Om Prakash Rawat will arrive here on Thursday to take stock of the preparations for the February 27 assembly polls, an official said on Tuesday. Rawat will be accompanied by Election Commissioners Sunil Arora and Ashok Lavasa. The five-year term of the 60-member Meghalaya Assembly...

February 13, 2018

CEC to check preparedness for Karnataka polls

Newly-appointed Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Om Prakash Rawat will visit Karnataka on Wednesday to check the state’s preparedness for the upcoming assembly elections, an official said on Tuesday. “Along with a team of officials, the CEC will visit Bengaluru to meet the poll panel, district officials, police officers and representatives from political parties to check their preparedness,” a...

January 30, 2018

‘Winnability’ a sin?

The bold headlines were seemingly unrelated, yet in their contrast they projected a grim reality. The announcement of the BJP president of a game-plan aimed at securing some 360 Lok Sabha seats in the 2019 poll did not quite gel with an Election Commissioner’s lament about the “creeping new norms of political morality”. True that...

August 19, 2017