{"id":39572,"date":"2018-01-27T09:28:14","date_gmt":"2018-01-27T09:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=39572"},"modified":"2018-01-27T09:28:14","modified_gmt":"2018-01-27T09:28:14","slug":"new-election-commissioner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/new-election-commissioner\/","title":{"rendered":"New Election Commissioner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: Who recently took charge as new election commissioner of the country?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) Rajiv Maharishi<br \/>\n(b) Ravish Kumar<br \/>\n(c) Ashok Lavasa<br \/>\n(d) Rajiv Kumar<br \/>\n<strong>Answer: (c)\u00a0<\/strong><strong><br \/>\nRelated Facts:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>On 23<sup>rd<\/sup> January 2018, former Finance Secretary Ashok Lavasa assumed charge as the new Election Commissioner (EC) of India.<\/li>\n<li>He is the senior IAS officer of the 1980 batch of Haryana Cadre.<\/li>\n<li>He was made Finance Secretary of India on October 31, 2017.<\/li>\n<li>His term will be of 6 years or till the age of 65, whichever is earlier.<\/li>\n<li>It is known that Sunil Arora is also another election commissioner.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pib.nic.in\/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=1517538\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.pib.nic.in\/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=1517538<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Who recently took charge as new election commissioner of the country? (a) Rajiv Maharishi (b) Ravish Kumar (c) Ashok Lavasa (d) Rajiv Kumar Answer: (c)\u00a0 Related Facts:\u00a0 On 23rd January 2018, former Finance Secretary Ashok Lavasa assumed charge as the new Election Commissioner (EC) of India. He is the senior IAS officer of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1127],"tags":[2348],"class_list":["post-39572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pers","tag-personalities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}