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Reporters Without Orders Ep 323: Lok Sabha polls, hot seats, strategies

Lok Sabha Basant Kumar Pratyush Deep Shivnarayan Rajpurohit Sumedha Mittal Newslaundry

This week, host Shivnarayan Rajpurohit is joined by Newslaundry’s Basant Kumar, Pratyush Deep, and Sumedha Mittal to discuss the coverage of the Lok Sabha elections and provide insights into the pulse of the people.

The conversation delves into the potential election outcomes across India, hot seats, political parties’ strategies, and campaign. They also discuss the grassroots mobilisation by political parties.

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00:00:00 - Introduction

00:03:12 - Haryana-Punjab elections

00:13:35 - Assam-Bengal elections

00:34:29 - Delhi-NCR elections

00:42:38 - Recommendations

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Produced and edited by Saif Ali Ekram, recorded by Anil Kumar.

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