{"id":2128,"date":"2023-08-22T10:11:54","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T10:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/?p=2128"},"modified":"2023-08-22T10:11:54","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T10:11:54","slug":"ec-to-designate-cricketer-sachin-tendulkar-as-national-icon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/ec-to-designate-cricketer-sachin-tendulkar-as-national-icon\/","title":{"rendered":"EC To Designate Cricketer Sachin Tendulkar As \u2018National Icon\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Aug 22 : To promote increased voter involvement in the political process, the <a href=\"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/congress-modi-govt-wants-to-ensure-control-over-ec-in-poll-year\/\">Election Commission<\/a> (EC) will recognise cricketing hero Sachin Tendulkar as a &#8220;national icon&#8221; on Wednesday.<br \/>\nTendulkar and the election commission will sign a memorandum of understanding here on Wednesday. Tendulkar&#8217;s three-year contract includes him promoting voter awareness.<br \/>\nThe EC stated in a statement that &#8220;this collaboration would mark a significant step towards leveraging Tendulkar&#8217;s unparalleled impact with the youth for increasing voters&#8217; participation in the upcoming elections, especially in the general elections (to Lok Sabha), 2024.&#8221;Through the partnership, the EC hopes to address the problems of urban and youth voter indifference.<br \/>\nTo encourage people to participate in the electoral process, the EC has been aligning itself with well-known Indians from a variety of areas by referring to them as its &#8220;national icons.&#8221;<br \/>\nActor Pankaj Tripathi was designated as a national icon by the commission last year. In the past, the EC&#8217;s national icons during the 2019 Lok Sabha elections had included veterans like MS Dhoni, Aamir Khan, and Mary Kom.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2130\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2130\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2130\" src=\"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot-2023-08-22-at-3.36.35-PM-300x253.png\" alt=\"EC To Designate Cricketer Sachin Tendulkar As \u2018National Icon\u2019\" width=\"300\" height=\"253\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2130\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">EC To Designate Cricketer Sachin Tendulkar As \u2018National Icon\u2019<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Aug 22 : To promote increased voter involvement in the political process, the Election Commission (EC) will recognise cricketing hero Sachin Tendulkar as a &#8220;national icon&#8221; on Wednesday. Tendulkar and the election commission will sign a memorandum of understanding here on Wednesday. Tendulkar&#8217;s three-year contract includes him promoting voter awareness. The EC stated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,67,89,54,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-header","category-national","category-political","category-sports"],"gutentor_comment":0,"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>EC To Designate Cricketer Sachin Tendulkar As \u2018National Icon\u2019<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Election Commission (EC) will recognise cricketing hero Sachin Tendulkar as a &quot;national icon&quot; on Wednesday.\" \/>\n<meta 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