Ashoka University criticised for dissociating itself from professor’s paper on election manipulation
Scroll.in | 2 August 2023
Ashoka University has been criticised for a statement on Tuesday dissociating itself from a faculty member’s research paper, which claimed electoral manipulation in favour of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
The research paper titled “Democratic Backsliding in the World’s Largest Democracy” by Sabyasachi Das, assistant professor of economics at Ashoka University, was published on July 25 on the Social Science Research Network. Das argued that the BJP won a disproportionate share of closely contested parliamentary seats in 2019 Lok Sabha polls, especially in states where it was the ruling party at the time.
Statement in Solidarity with Sabyasachi Das by Leher, a student group at Ashoka University