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From Chaiwala to Chowkidar: Modi s Election Campaigns Online and Offline In the 2019 Indian general election, Prime Minister Narendra Modi countered corruption charges made by the Indian National Congress s (INC) Rahul Gandhi through the Chowkidar campaign. The author analyses how Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) were successfully able to employ the Chowkidar slogan on social media and integrate it with their offline campaign. The Chowkidar campaign and use of social media, the author argues, are a part of Modi’s populist playbook, noting the similarities the most recent campaign has with the BJP’s Chaiwala campaign in the 2014 general election. ....
Research at risk as UK abandons global aid commitment Girls in Bangladesh receiving electronics training through a UK-funded programme. UK overseas development assistance cuts could threaten the future of such programmes, academics say. Copyright: Ricci Coughlan/DFID Speed read UK rowing back on legally binding commitments Cuts likely to affect long-term science research, social science Share this article: Republish We encourage you to republish this article online and in print, it’s free under our creative commons attribution license, but please follow some simple guidelines: You have to credit our authors. You have to credit SciDev.Net where possible include our logo with a link back to the original article. ....
Published on 10 December 2020 A statement from global academics On Human Rights Day 2020, we the undersigned express our deep concern over the deterioration of the human rights situation in India, in particular the treatment of minority groups (especially Muslims) students, activists and journalists who are denied their constitutional right to dissent and protest peacefully. Since the present government, led by Narendra Modi came to power in 2014, inflammatory hate speech, vigilante nationalism, and violent acts against Muslims, other minorities, intellectuals and activists have risen dramatically. These have only got more pronounced and virulent in his second term with the promotion of a majoritarian right-wing Hindutva agenda. Examples include revoking Jammu and Kashmir’s special status in an undemocratic manner leading to arbitrary detentions and widespread human rights violations in the state and beyond. This was followed by ....