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in Indore, where the opposition candidate was prevented from contesting, NOTA gathers nearly 2 lakh votes.

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Delhi, redeemed.

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Jordan's health minister resigns after hospital oxygen shortage kills seven COVID patients. A government takes responsibility for the tragedy and launches an investigation. Imagine that.

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Let that sink in. India has lost about 100 journalists to Covid since last year. 45 of them died in the last two weeks alone...

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For those who think Covid and elections are not related, K.K. Shailaja, the Kerala Health Minister who handled her portfolio with competence and compassion during the 1st wave, won her seat with the biggest margin the state has seen since 2006 and before that since 1987.

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WOMEN CANDIDATES BJP: 45/374, 12% INC: 47/344, 13.7% AITC: 17/42, 40.5% PSP (Lohia), 3/35, 7.9% SP: 5/29, 17.2% AMMK: 0/23 SHS: 1/22, 4.5% ADMK: 1/21, 4.8% DMK: 2/20, 10% NCP: 2/18, 11.1% BJD: 6/18, 33.3% JD(U): 1/17, 5.9% RJD: 3/17,17.6% TRS: 2/17, 11.8% BSP 1/12, 8.3%

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Statement by the political science department about academic freedom at ⁦ @AshokaUniv ⁩

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Tested negative after a three-week bout of COVID. Given the situation, I feel lucky to have caught it a month ago and not now. I'm horrified at the number of friends, students, who are contracting the disease because of state negligence.

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After 5 years in Haryana, about time I learned to make a decent parantha. #Ashokadhaba #Shudhdesidhaba

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I condemn the vicious attacks against @sabya_economist , a colleague of rare courage and integrity. If we don't leave room for research that is inconvenient, we shut the door to the possibility of fixing our problems.

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I have a joke about Kashmir but the 2G is too slow

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Holi hai!

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It is quite courageous for @Nidhi to come out publicly about being duped. Haters will hate but she deserves empathy and understanding more than sneers and mockery. Do the decent thing and call for those responsible to be brought to book.

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whoever wrote that tweet on behalf of @AamAadmiParty should be fired. If it reflects the party's position, shame on you, @ArvindKejriwal

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नरेन्द्र मोदी ने VOTE किससे लिया: 🇮🇳India नरेन्द्र मोदी ने VACCINE किसे दी: 🇵🇰 Pakistan 🇵🇸 Palestine 🇮🇷 Iran 🇦🇪 UAE 🇸🇾 Syria 🇪🇬 Egypt 🇴🇲 Oman 🇰🇼 Kuwait 🇾🇪 Yemen 🇳🇬 Nigeria 🇧🇭 Bahrain 🇸🇴 Somalia 🇲🇦 Morocco 🇹🇯 Tajikistan 🇺🇿 Uzbekistan 🇧🇩 Bangladesh 🇦🇫 Afghanistan 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia

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Don't ask me questions about exit polls. I don't give a damn about them. There are more important things to talk about at the moment. More important questions to ask. Wait for the results and discuss actual numbers. In any case, and as usual, they're all over the place.

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8 days before the results. Rather than indulge in a pointless exercise of prediction, we can focus on information that is verifiable. For instance:

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Need to call a spade a spade. Rahul Gandhi's Disqualification Constitutes an Abuse of Power via @thewire_in

Rahul Gandhi's Disqualification Constitutes an Abuse of Power

Accusations of cronyism and favouritism have been a weak spot for PM Narendra Modi, amplified by the recent Adani affair. The reaction to these accusations has not been to address them head-on, or to...

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4 years

This picture is a good reminder that a lamppost would have made a better president.

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This is not strategy. It's a world view.

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भारत देश के प्रधानमंत्री बोल रहे हैं...! #Rajasthan #LokSabhaElections2024

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This is a good day for the opposition. But these results are more voter driven than party led.

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You cannot detain and raid journalists and complain at the same time about India's abysmal press freedom ranking.

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4 years

Not quite 20 here but almost. With my then yoga teacher, in Gujarat.

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This is not an advertorial. It's an ad. What else have you made up, @IndianExpress ?

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A wrong image was inadvertently included in the cover collage of the advertorial on Uttar Pradesh produced by the marketing department of the newspaper. The error is deeply regretted and the image has been removed in all digital editions of the paper.

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@EmergingRoy @Nidhi What about Paytm?

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Looks like we will know the results of Nawada before Nevada, #BiharElectionNerd

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3 years

Unsolicited advice for election buffs: before March 10, disconnect, read a book, catch up on movies, spend time with loved ones. And replug on results day to look at facts.

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No country for social scientists

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EXCLUSIVE: A PhD proposal on Kashmir’s ethnography & politics citing Noam Chomsky’s criticism of PM Modi, has led to a show-cause notice being issued to the research scholar & disciplinary inquiry against his supervisor at @SouthAsianUni By @Vidheesha7

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Kid: we voted for school prefects today. Me: you elected someone good? Kid: no. We picked up those who will do a bad job. That way, they won’t bother us. Me: ... #futureofdemocracy

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Irony is clearly lost on those taking such decision.

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Amritsar police has imposed Section 144 inside and around the premises of Jallianwala Bagh to ban gathering of five or more people, protests, meetings, demonstrations, slogan raising to oppose renovation of Jallianwala Bagh. Pic: Express @iepunjab @IndianExpress

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Thrilled to announce that the Lok Dhaba dataset has received the Lijphart/Przeworski/Verba Data Set Award by @APSAtweets Comparative Politics section. @fr_jensenius and I share this prize on behalf of all TCPD collaborators and friends who contributed to build this public good.

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Visited Ashoka campus today. I saw two guards and the registrar #GhostTown

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5 years

On the day of India’s GE results (and of my 40th), my 10 yo daughter’s gifts me ... a political quiz...

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I was going to write recommendation letters all day today, but then I started cooking...

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Muslim candidates by Alliances - NDA: 4/441 (0.7%) - INDIA: 50/690 (7.2%) Muslim candidates by parties - BJP: 1/441 (0.7%) - INC: 19/328 (5.8%) - SP: 4/62 (6.5%) - Trinamool: 6/42 (14.3%)

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You can download for free the raw GE 2019 data on . It contains constituency level data on candidates with unique IDs, vote shares, turnout, incumbency data, No of elections contested by each candidate and No of terms served, as well as turncoats data.

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My tribute to Paul Brass, who just passed away. How his scholarship transformed Indian political science

Obituary: Paul R Brass’s scholarship transformed Indian political science

In a career that spanned nearly six decades, Paul Brass was dedicated to his scholarly work. He tackled many of the most important questions of Indian politics and authored sixteen books and dozens...

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BJP UPDATE (6 lists): 298 candidates 36 women (12.1%) 6 Muslims 42 MPs out + 5 incumbent seats given to JD(U) 150 new candidates, incl. 34 in seats not contested in 2014 126 MPs re-running. Most sitting MPs in Bihar, UP, RAJ, MH and KR have been re-nominated.

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There is no cause to rejoice that cases are officially below 3 lakhs. There is no measure of the extent of cases in rural areas and India does not have limitless testing capacities. Remain careful.

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Even if a few prominent dynasts have bitten the dust, dynasticism is not down. Actually, it has increased. One fourth of BJP’s MPs belong to pol families. 1/3 of total MPs. Via| Explained News, The Indian Express ⁦ @TCPD_Ashoka ⁩

Explained: Why so many MPs are dynasts

A record 30% of the new Lok Sabha MPs belong to political families. Among states, Punjab and Bihar have the highest proportions of dynastic MPs. Among parties, Congress remains the most dynastic but...

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3 years

Courts must intervene. If the rule of law has any meaning left.

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UP govt led by @myogiadityanath denying basic treatment to covid positive Kerala journalist, under arrest for the past few months for covering sexual violence in the state. Please bookmark this episode in the list of cruelties by India during the pandemic year. And never forget.

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This panel totally deserves to be a manel. I'm glad no woman is participating in this.

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India lashed by 2nd Covid surge. Foreign media attacks PM Modi. Lutyens ecosystem amplifies criticism. Centre deems coverage 'one sided'. India: Victim of prejudice or false pride? @TVMohandasPai , @sumanthraman , Sanjay Hegde, join Rahul Shivshankar on Converse India at 8 pm.

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Reliable or not, predictive exit polls serve little purpose other than filling the gap between the last day of polling and the day of counting. For pollsters, they are a reputation building tool meant to enhance their businesses.

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My piece : How to read Indian politics: Without immersive ground reporting & fieldwork, backed by large data sets, we’ll never grasp complexities

How to read Indian politics: Without immersive ground reporting & fieldwork, backed by large data...

Now that spring elections have passed, our minds have already fast-forwarded to the next round of polls. The question is: What have we learnt from this past round of elections and how does it add...

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

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Building a new parliament is essential service but making the existing parliament function isn't.

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Why Is the Modi Govt Closing Forums of Public Accountability During a Pandemic? (So rallies and dharnas in W Bengal are okay but no virtual Parliamentary Committee meetings?) Madhav Godbole writes.

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Is this meant to uplift spirits? When people die en masse, when there is grief? When century-old trees are being uprooted and Delhi's most iconic public gathering site bulldozed to make way to a PM's vanity project?

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I don’t know if this generates despair or hope in these bleak bleak times ...but playing this evening on loudspeakers at Vijay chowk Delhi this evening ... surreal to me.

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Happiness

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@dhume Disagree. The adjudicator of a scientific paper can only be peer review. Besides, the revolt as you call it is against founders' interference in an academic matter, not public scrutiny of research.

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Finally got something growing on the balcony.

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Perfect afternoon

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The way these state polls were held should leave us in dismay. My piece.

The way these state polls were held should leave us in dismay

The BJP has done poorly against regional parties but the worst showing this election season was the Election Commission’s

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Today is as good a day as any to say that seat predictions is a futile exercise.

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Launching @TCPD_Ashoka 's political career tracker. Find out the trajectory of every candidates who ever contested an election since 1962 (for 20 states, more to come in the coming weeks).

TCPD

@TCPD_Ashoka

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The PCT, designed by @TCPD_Ashoka is a visualisation tool that measures this phenomenon and other aspects of Indian politicians' careers. Its interface helps you visualize all candidates contesting a particular election Click here:

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- BJP numbers are not surprising. Minority exclusion extends to non-Muslim religious minorities. - Muslim representation in the opposition is lower.

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"Modi is, for the moment, not the indomitable vehicle for History, or the deified personification of the people. Today, he is just another politician, cut to size by the people".

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Shared by Indian Express android app. Click here to download

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@politicalbaaba As per our data (sources from ECI), the number of BJP <2000 votes margin is 15.

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Return to Haryana ⁦ @AshokaUniv ⁩ ⁦ @TCPD_Ashoka ⁩

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⁦ @Mahmudabad ⁩ and I write about the UP government's response to Covid: a deadly mix of incompetence, denialism and state repression

The UP model, or how not to face a pandemic

Nowhere else in the world has anti-terrorist legislation been invoked to threaten citizens voicing their needs during a pandemic, adding fear to their despair.

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You'd thought someone at the centre would have known that...

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#Moderna

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@ravibhatia3000 @ReshmiDG Do your children and grand-children follow you here? Shame on you for these sexist and insulting comments.

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Made lemon curd with ghondoraj lebu and poira gur

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If true, this man should be prosecuted for voluntarily endangering the lives of others. This is criminal.

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Our data on dynasts in the new Lok Sabha.

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@Mahmudabad Bring me a crate to Delhi, Bhai!

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End of semester baking.

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1 year

IAS, Princeton.

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9 months

We will continue to contest a decision that challenges the raison d'être of any research organisation. @CPR_India

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Statement

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“The big thing that we know from John Stuart Mill is that democracy is government by discussion, and, if you make discussion fearful, you are not going to get a democracy, no matter how you count the votes”

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3 years

No shame. No decency. Only callousness and opportunism. You're not voting in the next couple of weeks? Pay to stay alive.

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Breaking now! #BJP promises free vaccine in #Bengal if voted to power @IndiaToday @aajtak

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It's good to be back at the office (even on a Sunday).

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Statement from the Society for Economics Research in India in support of Sabyasachi Das.

Society for Economics Research in India

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Statement in Solidarity with Prof Sabyasachi Das from 209 economists at over 71 institutions across India #EconTwitter

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Winter has come #ApplepieTime

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Grateful that @fr_jensenius and I received the Lipsett/Przeworski/Verba Prize for best dataset from the @apsa_cp section of @apsatweets . Thank you @simonjhix for a wonderful citation and to all CP section members for this great honour.

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The special issue @jaffrelotc and I co-edited is now out. In the introduction, Christophe and I argue that India has shifted towards a new political system, rather than simply a new party system.

A new party system or a new political system?

Defying many odds, the BJP has held on to the political space it conquered five years ago and succeeded in expanding its territorial imprint. It did so through a campaign that was substantially dif...

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got my first shot of Covishield.

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I spoke to ⁦ @RohanV ⁩ about my work on Indian politics and about the pressing need to study Indian politics between elections.

Interview: Gilles Verniers on the pressing need to study Indian politics between elections

The co-director of the Trivedi Centre for Political Data on the need for an open-data ecosystem and what Indian political scientists students need to know.

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Statement on academic freedom ⁦ @AshokaUniv ⁩ from the Philosophy Department (via ⁦ @KrantiSaran ⁩)

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We are very pleased to release this new dataset on 1950s Indian state and national elections. Their unique format prevented us from connecting them to post-1962 elections. They are now available in a usable format for the first time.

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New Dataset Alert: 🚨 TCPD–IED (1951-1962) The dataset is a data repository of all Indian election results between 1951 and 1962. Click here: #Elections2023 #AcademicTwitter

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It is a particular time to be teaching a course on state formation, nation building and political cultures in South Asia. Here is my syllabus, for those interested.

Verniers_Democracy and authoritarianism in South Asia_Syllabus_Monsoon 2021.pdf

Shared with Dropbox

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What a tremendous achievement. @rahulsagar and his collaborators have built an extraordinary research public good, indexing hundreds of pre-Independence journals and magazines. hats off!

Rediscovering Indian thought: How a scholar built a database of pre-Independence magazines

Rahul Sagar details the inspiration and execution of his project to index the contents pages of 255 English-language pre-Independence magazines from India.

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Perfect morning walk at ⁦ @DorjeTeas ⁩ garden.

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My piece on The Return of Thakurvad and on how the rise of the BJP is also fuelled by traditional elites resentment and re-assertion

The Return of Thakurvad

The BJP banks on the collective resentment of the upper castes in the north, who expect the restoration of an ancient social order in which they are on top.

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INC first candidates - 88 candidates - 9 re-running MPs - 3 sitting MPs chucked out - 55 new candidates - 13 women candidates (14.8%) - 7 Muslims (6 UP, 1 Kerala)

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In their last election, Belgians had to wait 494 days before knowing who would form their government. #JustSayin '

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Eid Mubarak!

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Women representation in Congress ‘re-organization’ ⁃GenSec: 1/9 ⁃States in charges: 2/17 ⁃CWC: 2/22 ⁃AICC permanent invitees: 3/26 ⁃AICC special invites: 1/10 ⁃Special Committee: 1/6 ⁃Total: 10/89 ⁃Actual No of women office holders: 6/56

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Overhauling of Congress initiated. Team Rahul forms the core group.

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Sunday morning. Sunday baking.

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This so called bulldozer governance is a shameful form of electoral pandering that destroys lives, inflict untold miseries and makes a joke of the idea of the rule of law. It must be condemned and made unlawful.

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. @PalshikarSuhas tears into the bulldozer model of governance. He rightly says that "the media has not made an issue out of this."

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Overwhelmed by the response to TCPD’s summer internship. Applications are up by 430% as compared to last year. Nearly every state is covered. Candidates come from 223 different schools and institutions. All the best!

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My piece on the Congress’ prospects in the states they recently won.

Hindustan Times

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#ElectionsWithHT | Will BJP be able to win back key heartland states from Congress? (Report by @gilkumar ) #LokSabhaElections2019

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Did Covid had any effect on the BJP vote share in West Bengal? Not so simple... 1/11

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Cycle No 5

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Akhilesh Yadav launches a “Samajwadi Party’ Perfume! #UPThings

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Have you ever wished to have a clean list of all parties that have ever contested an election in India? @TCPD_Ashoka is releasing a new dataset that standarizes party names, list the elections they have participated in, among other variables. Raw data, as always, in open access.

TCPD

@TCPD_Ashoka

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TCPD-PPI dataset is a repository of all parties that have contested national and state elections in India since 1962. In this dataset, we have used our trademark tool Surf, to assign a unique identifier or numerical party ID. Data Available at:

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Early stage of a red berries crumble.

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My first reaction to the Indian elections results: After 10 years of solitary exercise of power, India goes back to coalition politics: via @economictimes

Election Result 2024: So, how’ll BJP now react to power-sharing?

Indian voters have surprised by delivering a coalition government, signaling a shift from BJP's solitary rule. Despite maintaining its vote share, BJP lost majority due to significant seat losses in...

economictimes.indiatimes.com

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This is the price to pay for speaking the truth and showing compassion. In solidarity with @harsh_mander . After raids, CBI files FIR against activist Harsh Mander for alleged FCRA violations via @scroll_in

After raids, CBI files FIR against activist Harsh Mander for alleged FCRA violations

‘My life, my writings and my work are my only response,’ Mander said on Friday.

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@GillesVerniers

6 years

Phase 1 CANDIDATES STATS 1279 Candidates 193 parties 1079 first-time contestants 103 Women candidates (8%) 30 women on major party ticket out of 261 candidates (11.5%) 31 women contesting as independents 52 re-running incumbents, incl. 4 women 39 turncoats

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6 years

WOMEN DYNASTS Pol families: 76/136 BJP: 22/45 (49%) INC: 25/47 (53.2%) AITC: 5/17 (29.4%) BJD 3/6 (50%) RJD: 3/3 (100%) Others: 18/18 (100%)

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Gilles Verniers

@GillesVerniers

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"... recent controversies suggest that India will not be a vishwaguru (teacher to the world), as Modi often boasts, unless both the government and university leaders credibly commit to uphold intellectual freedom". By ⁦ @MilanV ⁩