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Mumbai: Legendary cricketer Sachin Tendulkar recognised as \u2018national icon\u2019 of the Election Commission (EC) to encourage greater voter participation in the electoral process.<\/span><\/p>\n A Memorandum of Understanding was signed on Wednesday with Tendulkar for three years period at a function in New Delhi in the presence of the Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar. As part of the three-year agreement, Tendulkar will spread voter awareness.<\/p>\n Through the partnership, the EC seeks to address the challenges of urban and youth apathy toward voting.<\/p>\n \u201cThis collaboration would mark a significant step towards leveraging Tendulkar\u2019s unparalleled impact with the youth for increasing voters\u2019 participation in the forthcoming elections, especially in general elections (to Lok Sabha), 2024,\u201d the EC said in a statement.<\/p>\n The EC has been associating itself with renowned Indians from various fields by designating them as its \u201cnational icons\u201d to motivate voters to participate in the electoral process.<\/p>\n Last year, the commission recognised actor Pankaj Tripathi as a national icon. Earlier, during the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, stalwarts such as MS Dhoni, Aamir Khan, and Mary Kom had been the EC\u2019s national icons.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n [ad_2] [ad_1] Mumbai: Legendary cricketer Sachin Tendulkar recognised as \u2018national icon\u2019 of the Election Commission (EC) to encourage greater voter participation in the electoral process. A Memorandum of Understanding was signed on Wednesday with Tendulkar for three years period at a function in New Delhi in the presence of the Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar. As […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5947","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-nation"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5949,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5947\/revisions\/5949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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