Sanjay Kumar

Sanjay Kumar is Professor at and currently the Director of CSDS. Views are personal.

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The Bru tribespeople wait at the polling booth to cast their vote for the Tripura Assembly election

Tripura polls | Brus become visible, but their fight for identity continues

Sanjay Kumar,Jyoti Mishra,Vibha Attri

Election officials carry EVMs at a counting centre in Agartala on March 2, 2023.

How free and fair were the 2023 Tripura Assembly elections?

BJP supporters celebrate Tripura Chief Minister and party candidate from Bordowali Town Manik Saha’s victory in the state assembly elections, in Agartala on March 2, 2023

Lessons for key parties from Tripura election

Sandeep Shastri, Suhas Palshikar,Sanjay Kumar

Findings of the survey also indicate that those who have benefited from a Central government health scheme do give due credit to the Central government and those who have benefited from a State government health scheme, give credit to the State government.

Who do voters credit (or blame) for the provision of health services?

Methodology of CSDS-Lokniti health survey

Sanjay Kumar, Suhas Palshikar,Sandeep Shastri

Enumerators collect information from residents during the first phase of the caste-based census in Bihar.

Why the caste survey in Bihar worries the BJP

Sanjay Kumar,Vishakha Nandini

‘Forced population control measures have not shown promising results in the countries that have implemented them, the most relevant example being China’

India must build awareness on population control

Aryan Pandey,Sanjay Kumar

Union Minister Anurag Thakur clicks selfies with supporters enroute to a public rally ahead of Himachal Pradesh Assembly elections in Bilaspur on November 8, 2022.

How voters from different castes, communities voted in Himachal Pradesh?

Sanjay Kumar,Umar Mohidin

Congress leaders and workers celebrate the party’s lead in Himachal Pradesh Assembly elections in Dehradun on December 8, 2022.

What mattered in a tight race in Himachal Pradesh?

Sandeep Shastri, Suhas Palshikar,Sanjay Kumar

Voters wait in queues at a polling station during the first phase of Gujarat Assembly elections at Aliabet in Bharuch district on December 1, 2022. Photo: Twitter/@ECISVEEP via PTI

The rural-urban divide in the Gujarat verdict of 2022

Sanjay Kumar, Mahashweta Jani

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, BJP president J.P. Nadda and Union Home Minister Amit Shah are felicitated at the BJP headquarters in New Delhi after the BJP’s historic win in Gujarat.

What contributed to the BJP’s massive victory in Gujarat?

Sandeep Shastri, Suhas Palshikar,Sanjay Kumar

Delhi Chief Minister and AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal during his visit to the Somnath Temple near Veraval in Gujarat.

Is there a desire for a third alternative to the BJP and Congress in Gujarat?

Suhas Palshikar,Sanjay Kumar

Election campaign banners being printed in Ahmedabad.

How are political parties placed a month before the Gujarat Assembly elections?

Sandeep Shastri,Sanjay Kumar

A teacher at a class in Gujarat Government Primary School No. 14 at Dhoraji town, Rajkot.

How happy are the people of Gujarat with the provision of basic facilities?