Ashok Lavasa

Raghuram Rajan backs Deepika Padukone's silent protest at JNU, says she inspires one to take stock of what's at stake

Backing Deepika Padukone, former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan said the actress' silent protest against JNU violence as also Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa doing his duty impartially despite harassment to his family, showed that for some people, truth, freedom and justice are not just lofty words, but ideals worth sacrificing for

Ashok Lavasa may be guilty but timing and nature of probe likely to threaten the very edifice of Election Commission

A confidential letter to 11 Public Sector Undertakings from the government to look into an any exercise of 'undue influence' by Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa during his tenure in the Power Ministry from 2009 to 2013 brings back focus on the official, whose family has been under the scanner of various government agencies

I-T department issues notice to Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa's wife over her income

The I-T department is looking at the ITRs of Novel Singhal Lavasa to ascertain if her income has escaped assessment in the past or something has been concealed from tax authorities, official sources said.

EC refuses to disclose Ashok Lavasa's dissent notes in 'MCC violation' cases, cites danger to 'life or physical safety'

The EC has refused to disclose the dissent notes of its commissioner Ashok Lavasa on decisions pertaining to Narendra Modi's speeches which were alleged to have violated the model code, saying it was exempted information which may 'endanger the life or physical safety' of an individual.

Ashok Lavasa’s claim of dissent being stifled in EC disingenuous, goes against poll body's conventions

Ashok Lavasa did not agree with the other two commissioners, Sunil Arora and Sushil Chandra, in finding Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah not guilty of MCC violations

Ashok Lavasa's demand to make dissent note public is critical to natural justice, transparency and strengthening democratic institutions

The ongoing controversy over Ashok Lavasa’s minority opinion is a reflection of a broader issue of the need for transparency within key democratic institutions.

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Ashok Lavasa’s dissent adds ballast to Opposition’s attacks on EC, heralds dark days for democracy

At a conceptual level, there is nothing wrong with Ashok Lavasa’s demand for making dissenting notes public.

Lok Sabha Election: Congress terms EC's refusal to make Ashok Lavasa's dissent notes public a 'constitutional travesty'

On Tuesday, the poll panel rejected with a majority vote Lavasa's demand that dissent notes should be recorded in its orders on model code violations that happened during the just-concluded Lok Sabha elections, days after the simmering tension within the EC over the issue came out in the open.

'I still say transparency is important,' Ashok Lavasa after EC rejects demand to make dissent note public

On a day Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora and fellow commissioner Sushil Chandra turned down his demand to incorporate minority view in orders relating to model code violations, Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa Tuesday said he still believes that transparency is important and such cases should be dealt in a time-bound manner