 "Left: Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora has denied rift, saying commission members are not clones of each other, Right: Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa has opted out of meetings over clean chit given to the prime minister's speeches")
Under attack not just from the Opposition for what it has called “partisan” conduct but also facing dissent from one of his team members, Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora on Saturday described as “unsavoury” and “avoidable” reports that fellow commissioner Ashok Lavasa had decided to recuse himself from meetings related to model code violations until he was allowed to record his disagreements.
Arora said members of the Commission were not supposed to be "clones" of each other, and that a divergence of views was natural. Lavasa, on the other hand, said it was an "internal matter" and he would like
