Electoral transparency and integrity

Transparency, disclosure, integrity and reform across India’s electoral system.

25 December 2016VideoSansad TV

Media Manthan – Electoral Reforms and Media

Guests: Jagdeep S. Chhokar, founding members of Association for Democratic Reforms; Iftikhar Gilani , Chief of National Bureau DNA; Pradeep Kumar Singh, Senior Journalist; Saba Naqvi, columnist Anchor: Urmilesh

29 April 2016WritingADR Speaks

Cost to Country: What Should MPs and MLAs Be Paid

The recent advertisement by the Rajya Sabha Secretariat House Committee reiterates that our ‘public’ representatives and ‘public’ servants do not consider public money to be their own, and thus show…

29 October 2015WritingADR Speaks

राजनीतिक दलों का रवैया

Text: जब से उच्चतम न्यायालय की पांच सदस्यीय पीठ ने संविधान के 99वें संशोधन को असंवैधानिक घोषित करते हुए राष्ट्रीय न्यायिक नियुक्ति आयोग को खारिज किया और कोलेजियम व्यवस्था का…

15 October 2015WritingADR Speaks

Why More Money Does Not Mean More Democracy

Suggestions to allow candidates to spend more money in elections are based on a misreading of how parties function on the ground. In a recent article in The Hindu on…