Former Finance Secretary Rajiv Kumar has been appointed as the new Election Commissioner, will replace Ashok Lavasa on August 31, the Law Ministry in a statement said.
Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora has named Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra as his nominee for the proposed Delimitation Commission for Jammu and Kashmir.
Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora on Friday took over as the new Chair of the Forum of the Election Management Bodies of South Asia (FEMBoSA) for the year 2020 at the annual meeting of the poll management bodies of Saarc countries.
All the senior leaders also reached there to attend the meeting which was scheduled to start at 7 p.m. but was delayed, waiting for the Prime Minister to reach the venue.
Breaking his silence on the controversy surrounding fellow Commissioner Ashok Lavasa's demand to record any dissent in the Election Commission's model code orders, Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora on Wednesday said there are times to remain quiet and times to speak up, indicating the issue could have been raised post elections.
He also lamented that EVMs are being used as a "football" and some sections are doing a "motivated slugfest" over their use.
He also added that clean elections are like a “well spring of legitimacy” for the leadership and the people of the country and if this was contaminated by such issues, the common man becomes “cynical” about the entire system, which is an area of concern.
Elections can be held in January or February in Telangana which has time upto March 5, 2019 for constitution of the new Assembly, he said.
The statement by the Chief Election Commissioner, which comes out a day after the BJP made a fresh push to hold Lok Sabha and assembly polls together, virtually rules out holding simultaneous polls any time soon.
Earlier this week, the complete draft of the NRC has included 2,89,83,677 people out of a total 3,29,91,384 applicants. However, names of around 40.07 lakh applicants did not figure in the list.
Meanwhile, exclusion of names of family members in the final draft of the NRC published in Assam on Monday has emerged as a major concern for many among the over 40 lakh applicants whose names do not figure in it.
In a letter in April, the Commission had urged the law ministry to amend the election laws so that it could use the ‘Contempt of Courts’ Act against such parties.
The Election Commission of India on Sunday said that VVPAT machines will be used along with EVMs in the upcoming Assembly elections in Gujarat.
The CEC said that once he was allotted a house by the government of India, he immediately vacated the Ahmedabad bungalow in October 2016.
The Gujarat Assembly elections will “without doubt” be held in December this year, the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Achal Kumar Jyoti said on Tuesday
Supreme Court today asked the Centre why no enabling law as mandated under the Constitution for the appointment of the Chief Election Commissioner and Election Commissioners has yet been framed.
Former Chief Election Commissioners S Y Quraishi and H S Brahma called for a quick rollout of the Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) machines in all polling stations across the country to silence them.
Requesting political parties not to pass their "unhappiness of the loss" on to the EVM machines, former chiefs of the Election Commission of India have vouched for the reliability of these machines.
SY Quraishi, former Chief Election Commissioner, today lauded Prime Minister Narendra Modi for being “vocal on electoral reforms” in the country.
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