EC rejects Lavasa’s demand, says dissent in poll code violation cases won’t be made public

Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa has recused from meetings on violations of the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) in protest over his minority decisions going unrecorded in the Commission’s final orders.

Rejecting the demand of its officer Ashok Lavasa, the Election Commission on Tuesday ruled that dissent and minority views by election commissioners in cases of model code violations would not be recorded in the final orders of the poll watchdog and made public. The full commission comprises Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora and fellow commissioners Lavasa and Sushil Chandra.

“In the meeting of the Election Commission held today regarding the issue of Model Code of Conduct, it was interalia decided that proceedings of the commission’s meetings would be drawn, including the views of all the commission members. Thereafter, formal instructions to this effect would be issued in consonance with extant laws/rules, etc,” the Election Commission said in a statement.

Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa has recused from meetings on violations of the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) in protest over his minority decisions going unrecorded in the Commission’s final orders.

Lavasa had informed Arora of his decision on May 16, after his suggestion, dated May 4, on recording his dissent in EC orders on MCC violations and two subsequent reminders on May 10 and May 14 went unheeded.

The Indian Express earlier reported that Lavasa had on five occasions, opposed clean chits given to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP President Amit Shah on charges of violating the model code during their campaign for the Lok Sabha polls.

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