India’s CEC heads World Election Bodies Association

Bengaluru: India’s Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sunil Arora has been elected as Chairman of the Association of World Election Bodies (AWEB) for two years, an official statement said on Tuesday. “Arora, who succeeded Romania’s Lon Mincu Radulescu, assumed chairmanship for the next two years up to 2021 at the three-day 4th general assembly of the World Election Bodies Association here,” the poll panel said in a statement. On the occasion, outgoing Chairman Radulescu handed over the Association’s flag to Arora in the presence of Election Commissioners Ashok Lavasa and Sushil Chandran and participating delegates. Radulescu is the advisor to Romania’s permanent election authority. The flag will remain with Arora for the two-year term till 20121. “India was unanimously nominated to the top post of the AWEB at its last general assembly in Romania’s Bucharest in 2017,” said the statement. Citing Mahatma Gandhi’s writings, Arora said democracy was the art and science of mobilising the physical, economic and spiritual resources of the people in the service of all. (IANS)

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