Reporters Without Orders Ep 326: UP Lok Sabha, inside Amritpal Singh’s poll campaign

This week, host Sumedha Mittal is joined by independent journalists Sunil Kashyap and Jatinder Kaur Tur. 

Sunil spoke about his report on the Uttar Pradesh Lok Sabha result and how the BJP workers’ overconfidence and ignorance led to the party’s seat loss. He said Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party’s “PDA card” – reaching out to the “pichre” or backward, Dalits, and “alpashankhak” or minorities was a hit for the INDIA bloc in UP. 

Jatinder threw light on the jailed leader Amirtpal Singh’s poll campaign from behind the bars and his subsequent win from Khadoor Sahib in Punjab. She gave insights on who managed the poll campaign on the ground, what was the poll plank, and how they convinced people to vote for him.    

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Timecodes

00:00:00 - Introduction 

00:02:28 - Key factor behind UP Lok Sabha result 

00:32:46 - Backstory of Amritpal Singh’s election campaign 

01:05:25 - Recommendation 

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Produced by Ashish Anand, edited by Umrav Singh, recorded by Anil Kumar.