{"id":312599,"date":"2019-05-25T10:12:56","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T10:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=312599"},"modified":"2019-05-25T10:12:56","modified_gmt":"2019-05-25T10:12:56","slug":"cec-sunil-arora-calls-on-president-ram-nath-kovind-at-rashtrapati-bhavan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/cec-sunil-arora-calls-on-president-ram-nath-kovind-at-rashtrapati-bhavan\/","title":{"rendered":"CEC Sunil Arora calls on President Ram Nath Kovind at Rashtrapati Bhavan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-312600 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/sunil-arora-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/sunil-arora-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/sunil-arora-768x515.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/sunil-arora-696x466.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/sunil-arora-627x420.jpg 627w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/sunil-arora.jpg 815w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Chief Election Commissioner, Sunil Arora, accompanied by Election Commissioners Ashok Lavasa and Sushil Chandra met President Ram Nath Kovind on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A copy of the Notification issued by the Election Commission in terms of Section 73 of the Representation of People\u2019s Act, 1951, containing the names of Members elected to the House of the People \u2013 following General Elections to the 17th\u00a0Lok Sabha \u2013 was submitted by them to President Kovind.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">President Kovind congratulated the Chief Election Commissioner and the other Election Commissioners on the successful completion of the electoral process and of the largest democratic exercise in human history.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On behalf of the entire country, he appreciated the efforts of the Election Commission, its officials and members of its staff, other public officials who were involved in management and superintendence of the campaign and polling, and police and security personnel, Central and state, for working tirelessly and diligently to uphold the sanctity of the people\u2019s ballot and successfully completing a free and fair election.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Above all, he commended hundreds of millions of voters who participated in the election process in such large numbers. This, the President noted, was entirely in keeping with our Constitution and India\u2019s deep and unshakeable democratic traditions.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chief Election Commissioner, Sunil Arora, accompanied by Election Commissioners Ashok Lavasa and Sushil Chandra met President Ram Nath Kovind on Saturday. A copy of the Notification issued by the Election Commission in terms of Section 73 of the Representation of People\u2019s Act, 1951, containing the names of Members elected to the House of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":312600,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[11406,1452,9906],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312599"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312601,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312599\/revisions\/312601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/312600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}