Conference on ‘Money Power in Politics’

NOTE
Grants entry for both the days 9th & 10th Jan 2020
Includes Lunch and tea/snacks for both days
Foundation for Democratic Reforms along with ISB, Hyderabad and University of Hyderabad is organizing the first edition of the Indian Democracy at Work Conference is “Money Power in Politics” on January 9-10, 2020 at ISB, Hyderabad. It has 4 sub-themes – 1) Party Maintenance 2) Candidate Selection 3) Political Campaign Expenditure 4) Vote Buying. It will debate and discuss the pervasive role of money in Indian politics and deliberate on solutions to this menace.

Vice President of India M Venkaiah Naidu will deliver the inaugural address. Some of the speakers who will be a part of our conference include Ashok Lavasa (Election Commissioner), Justice Chelameswar (former Supreme Court judge), Dr Jayaprakash Narayan (General Secretary, FDR), Kavitha Rao (Former MP, TRS), Natasha Jog (Election Integrity Head for India, Facebook), Priyanka Chaturvedi (Shiv Sena), Ram Madhav (National Secretary, BJP), Rajeev Gowda (Indian National Congress), Sitaram Yechury (CPI(M)), Prashant Kishor (Political Strategist), Ashutosh Varshney (Professor, Brown University – USA), Milan Vaishnav (Director – South Asia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace), Carolyn Elliot (Professor Emerita, University of Vermont), Yamini Aiyar (President, Centre for Policy Research), Samuel Asher (Development Economist, John Hopkins University – USA), among others.

For details visit www.indiandemocracyatwork.in or www.idaw.in