After the Maharashtra Assembly elections, the echoes of alleged Electronic Voting Machine manipulation has once again reverberated through political spaces, particularly from the Congress party and its allies. The Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge’s strong demand to reintroduce ballot papers by replacing the EVM highlights a recurring scepticism about the established electoral process. Understanding how much people trust EVMs provides crucial …
On June 4, 2024, the day of counting of votes of the Lok Sabha elections, will India witness anti-incumbency? We show that voters’ assessment of the government’s performance combined with the impact of the leadership factor may help the BJP weather the storm that economic distress may cause. And perhaps more significantly, it is to the BJP’s credit that even …
Reports based on the pre-poll survey of the Lokniti-Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, published in these pages on April 11, focused on the factors that had the potential to work in favour of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha elections. But above all, the strengthening of Hindu identity and the BJP’s clear identification with the Ram Mandir issue …
Indian news consumers’ trust in private TV news channels is relatively much lower than their belief in newspapers and yet television continues to be the dominant news source. Notably, their trust in online news websites is lower than even the private channels, while the former is the third preferred source for accessing news after news channels and newspapers despite a …
