The Chief Election Commissioner, Sunil Arora on Thursday played down the differences in the three-member poll panel saying, “We are on the same page.”
The CEC and the Commissioners ealier reviewed the poll preparedness in Haryana for the October 21 Assembly polls. When asked to comment on the difference of opinion between him and Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa during the Lok Sabha polls held earlier this year, Arora said, “There is nothing like this…we are on the same page.”
Lavasa was appointed Election Commissioner on January 23, 2018, after he retired as the Union Finance Secretary the previous year.
His difference of opinion, with regard to the implementation of the model code of conduct (MCC), with Sunil Arora and Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra was reported during the parliamentary election 2019.
The rift within the three-member Election Commission had came into the open after a letter by Lavasa in May, where he had opposed clearances that the poll panel gave to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Amit Shah in complaints of code of conduct violations.