-The Telegraph The time for informality is over — the Election Commission’s stature requires legal heft When Winston Churchill stood for re-election as prime minister in 1945 after leading Britain to victory in the Second World War, few could have predicted his resounding defeat at the hustings. Churchill was the same fiery, belligerent and all-powerful leader inspiring awe amongst his countrymen. Yet the country had slowly but surely changed when nobody was...
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Retweeting Modi increases BJP MPs' chances of getting a Lok Sabha ticket: Study -Barbara de Alfaro
-ThePrint.in An analysis of 131 BJP MPs' tweets in February last year shows an increase in likelihood of them getting a ticket to contest Lok Sabha elections. Loyalty matters most for BJP Members of Parliament in getting renominated by the party to contest the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. An analysis of tweets from 131 current BJP MPs, collected in February 2018, shows a correlation between loyalty to the party’s leadership on Twitter...
More »Rules for media should also apply to Social Media: Ex-CEC
-IANS New Delhi: The Election Commission (EC) should treat Social Media like any other media and all rules that apply to the media during the model code of conduct should also apply to Social Media, former Chief Election Commissioner S.Y. Quraishi said on Friday. Quraishi was speaking at an event where a group of former bureaucrats and organisations, like Common Cause, Free Internet Foundation, Association for Democratic Reforms and Free Software Movement...
More »Manifestos bring digital rights to mainstream -Anam Ajmal
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Congress talks about safeguarding privacy, Trinamool warns of the misuse of surveillance and CPM proposes limiting the influence of technology behemoths. Leading political parties have woken up to the issue of digital rights in their poll manifestos, a move that has been welcomed by civil society and activists. The Congress manifesto promises to safeguard privacy and personal data by passing laws. It also lays down ambitious...
More »Medium, message, masses -Shivam Vij
-The Telegraph The impact the beast called Social Media can really have on the ensuing general elections Sometime in the late 2000s, a young software engineer who voluntarily ran Social Media propaganda for the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh and the Bharatiya Janata Party got an opportunity to attend a BJP Social Media meet in Bangalore. Among the people who saw this young man speak there was the then Gujarat chief minister, Narendra Modi....
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