{"id":3706,"date":"2017-07-03T18:44:49","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T13:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=3706"},"modified":"2017-07-06T19:09:21","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T13:39:21","slug":"learn-election-commission-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/learn-election-commission-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn about Election Commission of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"637\"><strong>About Election commission:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">It operates under Article 324 of the Constitution.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">It is a permanent constitutional body.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00b7Originally the commission consist only a Chief Election Commissioner.\u00a0 Presently it consists of Chief Election Commissioner and two Election Commissioners.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00b7The Constitution of India has vested in the Election Commission of India the superintendence direction and control of the entire process of conduct of elections to Parliament and Legislature of every State and to the offices of Parliament and Vice-President of India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Functions of Election Commission:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00b7To hold free and fair elections in the Country.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00b7Allows symbols to the political parties.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00b7Give recognition to the national parities, state parties, and regional parties.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">It sets limits on poll expenses.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Prepare electoral rolls and update voters list time to time.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Notification of dates and schedules for the election for filling nominations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Current updates:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00b7Election Commissioner Achal Kumar Joti has been appointed the next Chief Election Commissioner of India.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00b7He will succeed current CEC Nasim Zaidi<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00b7Joti will take charge as CEC on July 6<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00b7 Joti will be overseeing state Assembly elections in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh before demitting office in January 2018.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About Election commission: It operates under Article 324 of the Constitution. It is a permanent constitutional body. \u00b7Originally the commission consist only a Chief Election Commissioner.\u00a0 Presently it consists of Chief Election Commissioner and two Election Commissioners. \u00b7The Constitution of India has vested in the Election Commission of India the superintendence direction and control of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/learn-election-commission-india\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Learn about Election Commission of India<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kb","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704828227},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}