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2024-04-08

The 40 Lok Sabhas BJP Won in 2019 With Less Than 50,000 Margin

BJP won 77 seats with less than one lakh votes. Close contests in 40 seats include Machhlishahr in UP with just 181 votes. BJP won 303 seats in 2019, and the halfway mark is 272, that is, it crossed the margin by 33 seats only.

#2019elections #BJP #LokSabhaSeats #elections2024 #india

thewire.in/politics/datadive-t

2024-02-27

Lessons unheeded

Keen to display a strongman image by making swift and decisive moves, a political leader with an eye on electoral benefits can ratchet up tensions and fuel escalation dynamics, writes Sushant Singh.

#IndoPakRelations #NarendraModi #elections2024 #PulwamaAttack #CRPF #2019elections #kashmir #balakot #IAF #india #pakistan #diplomacy #geopolitics #security #defence

telegraphindia.com/opinion/les

2024-02-15

RTI: Several states flagged high EVM failure rate to EC ahead of 2019 LS polls

During the last Parliamentary elections, instances of EVMs breaking down during the polling process led to political uproar.

#EVMs #VVPAT #2019elections #BEL #EVMFailures #elections2024 #UnionGovt #india

indianexpress.com/article/indi

2023-08-30

India’s Universities Lack the Freedom to Excel

The abrupt resignation of an economics professor from a prestigious private university has highlighted concerns about academic freedom in India. The country will never be a “vishwaguru” (teacher to the world), as Prime Minister Narendra Modi often boasts, unless the government stops silencing dissenting voices.

project-syndicate.org/commenta

#universities #education #AcademicFreedom #AshokaUniversity #SabyasachiDas #ElectoralFraud #2019elections #research #BJP #hindutva #india

2023-08-22

Intelligence Bureau at Ashoka University, Wants to Probe ‘Democratic Backsliding’ Paper

IB officials arrived Monday to speak to former faculty member Sabyasachi Das, and unsuccessfully tried to speak to others from the economics department after learning he was not on campus. A second visit was then set for Tuesday.

#AshokaUniversity #IntelligenceBureau #SabyasachiDas #BJP #ElectoralFraud #2019elections #democracy #AcademicFreedom #FreeSpeech #research #hindutva #india

thewire.in/education/intellige

2023-08-20

320 economists from 91 institutions extend support to Prof Das, demand his reinstatement

As many as 320 economists from 91 institutions across the country have extended their support to Prof Sabyasachi Das, whose paper suggesting voter manipulation in the 2019 elections sparked a controversy.

#AshokaUniversity #SabyasachiDas #ElectoralFraud #2019elections #BJP #AcademicFreedom #censorship #hindutva #academia #education #india

thenewsminute.com/article/320-

2023-08-18

Ashoka University Departments Unite in Support of Former Professor Amid Academic Freedom Debate

The departments of sociology and anthropology, English, creative writing, political science, philosophy, psychology, and media studies have all voiced their concerns over the university's handling of academic freedom.

#AshokaUniversity #SabyasachiDas #research #ElectoralFraud #2019elections #BJP #AcademicFreedom #censorship #dissent #academia #education #hindutva #india

newsclick.in/ashoka-university

2023-08-16

Economics Dept Says Ashoka Governing Body ‘Interference’ Forcing Scholars to ‘Operate in Environment of Fear’

Department wants Sabyasachi Das reappointed, sets deadline of August 23; English and Creative Writing Departments also release a statement in solidarity with the economics department, stipulating the same demands.

#AshokaUniversity #SabyasachiDas #research #2019elections #ElectoralFraud #dissent #academia #education #BJP #universities #democracy #UnionGovt #india

thewire.in/education/econ-dept

2023-08-16
2023-08-04

What the Ashoka University Professor's Paper on BJP 'Manipulation' in 2019 Election Actually Says

Ashoka University has sought to distance itself from the paper, 'Democratic Backsliding in the World’s Largest Democracy', authored by Sabyasachi Das, assistant professor of economics, inviting charges of undermining academic freedom.

#SabyasachiDas #AshokaUniversity #BJP #ElectionManipulation #2019elections #democracy #AcedemicFreedom #dissent #research #education #academia #hindutva #india

thewire.in/politics/ashoka-uni

2023-08-02

Ashoka University criticised for dissociating itself from professor’s paper on election manipulation

His research raised the possibility of manipulation in favour of the ruling BJP in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

#SabyasachiDas #AshokaUniversity #2019elections #ElectionManipulation #BJP #democracy #dissent #research #academia #muslims #hindutva #india

scroll.in/article/1053658/asho

2019-01-26

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