Reporters Without Orders Reporters Without Orders Ep 373: JP Nadda’s rise, Maharashtra voter roll
This week, host Pratyush Deep is joined by Newslaundry’s Shivnarayan Rajpurohit and Sumedha Mittal.
Shivnarayan talks about his profile of BJP president JP Nadda, diving deep into his rise from an ABVP worker to the president of the world’s largest political party. He also sheds light on the Chetna Sansthan, an NGO run by Nadda’s wife which received significant corporate and government-linked CSR funding after the BJP came to power.
Sumedha talks about her report which looks at an unusual surge in the number of voters in Devendra Fadnavis’s constituency in Nagpur South West between the 2024 Lok Sabha and Maharashtra elections. A section of poll staff told her about alleged lapses in the manner these voters were added to the electoral rolls.
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00:00:00 - Introduction
00:02:36 - J P Nadda
00:21:59 - Unusual spike in the voter roll
00:33:20 - Recommendations
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Produced and edited by Saif Ali Ekram, recorded by Anil Kumar.
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