{"id":316568,"date":"2019-11-10T20:34:53","date_gmt":"2019-11-10T20:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=316568"},"modified":"2019-11-10T20:34:53","modified_gmt":"2019-11-10T20:34:53","slug":"former-chief-election-commissioner-tn-seshan-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/former-chief-election-commissioner-tn-seshan-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Chief Election Commissioner TN Seshan passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-316570 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Screenshot_20191110-234821__01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"973\" height=\"697\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/Screenshot_20191110-234821__01.jpg 973w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/Screenshot_20191110-234821__01-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/Screenshot_20191110-234821__01-768x550.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/Screenshot_20191110-234821__01-696x499.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/Screenshot_20191110-234821__01-586x420.jpg 586w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 973px) 100vw, 973px\" \/>Former Chief Election Commissioner of India, TN Seshan passed away on Sunday due to Heart attack. He was 86 years old. Seshan was the tenth Chief Election Commissioner of India and is credited with giving a different look to the institution of Election Commission in the country. There were dozens of election reforms in his time.\u00a0He was the first Chief Election Commissioner to conduct elections in four phases.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">PM Modi condoled the demise of TN Seshan, In a tweet he said, &#8220;<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Shri TN Seshan was an outstanding civil servant. He served India with utmost diligence and integrity. His efforts towards electoral reforms have made our democracy stronger and more participative. Pained by his demise. Om Shanti.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Former Chief Election Commissioner SY Quraishi in a tweet said, &#8220;Sad to announce that Shri TN Seshan passed away a short while ago. He was a true legend and a guiding force for all his successors. I pray for peace to his soul.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Chief Election Commissioner of India, TN Seshan passed away on Sunday due to Heart attack. He was 86 years old. Seshan was the tenth Chief Election Commissioner of India and is credited with giving a different look to the institution of Election Commission in the country. There were dozens of election reforms in his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":316570,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[8942],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316568"}],"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=316568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316571,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316568\/revisions\/316571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/316570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}