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'It Is a Decisive Year for Being in India' 10 DEMOCRACY AT WORK MUMBAI | 31 MARCH 2019 > Read between the lines DID THEY REALLY SAY THAT? CHECKLIST In this age of jumle-baazi, it might take a jumla to beat all other jumlas. But still, CONSTITUENCIES TO WATCH: MAHARASHTRA (48 LOK SABHA SEATS) what exactly did Samajwadi Party Chief Akhilesh Yadav mean when he told a TV channel in an interview: “The chowkidar is just a slogan, like the chaiwala. And n Hatkanangale: The politics in this constituency fielded as a candidate in 2009 and held the seat chai doodh ke bina nahin banti!” (Tea cannot be made without milk). Given that revolves around sugarcane and sugar prices. till 2014. But since then, the Rane family has quit Yadavs supply the doodh, and the chai is in the making, what was he hinting at? Cooperative sugar mills are owned by politicians, the Congress and has now floated its own party mostly Congress and Nationalist Congress Party, and called the Maharashtra Swabhiman Paksha that is CHATTERBOX Tit for tat they pay the farmers less than the government- neither with the NDA nor the UPA. Politics centres Say this for Priyanka: She always has an answer. Recently, a journalist in Uttar mandated fair and remunerative price for around the Nanar refinery that the Shiv Sena Pradesh pointed out that the Bharatiya Janata Party President (BJP) Amit Shah sugarcane. The seat is currently held by Raju Shetti, forced the BJP to withdraw robbing local sea- had stated that she was largely absent from the electoral battlefield. She just the rabble-rousing MP who heads the Swabhimani faring communities of their livelihood. If the Rane laughed and said: “I have not been to visit my grandmother in Italy for a while Shetkari Sanghatana and has been demanding a stranglehold over the constituency is destroyed, now. Maybe I should plan a visit soon”. fair deal for farmers. In the 2014 elections, he was NDA might retain it. part of the BJP-Shiv Sena front, cornering 53.8 per n Madha: After Sharad Pawar represented the Reminiscing Advani’s words cent of the votes. This time, he is playing coy, constituency in the Lok Sabha 2009-2014, the most Veteran journalist Pankaj Vohra has a lovely story about BJP senior leader L K "The son-in-law of Azhar Masood has entered though his party has been organising massive important family in the region, headed by Vijaysinh the constituency and speaks the language of a Advani. Once, in the Parliament house premises, a British journalist asked Advani terror mastermind. You people have to ensure rallies of farmers in the run up to the elections. Mohite Patil (NCP) asked for the seat for his son. The whether he intended to make India a Hindu nation, thus deviating from the prin- that the person who speaks the language of n Ratnagiri: The most important seat in the request was rejected. His son joined the BJP and has ciple of secularism. Advani retorted that India was a Hindu country in the same Masood is defeated in the Lok Sabha elections" Konkan region of Maharashtra could see a sea announced his support for the BJP candidate, way Britain was a Christian country; just as in Britain, people could follow and UP CM Adityanath about Imran Masood, the Congress change. The Rane family led by erstwhile chief Ranjitsinh Naik Nimbalkar (who ironically joined the practice any faith, in India too, it was the same. But, he added, India was secular candidate from Saharanpur, at a public meeting in minister Narayan Rane controls the seat. It was Congress two months ago but switched to the BJP only because it was predominantly Hindu. Saharanpur, March 28 held by the Congress when Rane’s son Nilesh was recently). Nimbalkar is likely to win. We reached out to the EC proactively because prospects in India. OPINION it has one of the biggest jobs in this country — running elections. We wanted to let them You’ve been banned in Indonesia and COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA (MARXIST) know that we have an escalation mechanism. fined in the United States. How are you There are people they can reach out to 24x7. looking at these issues. Why do you think Further, we have also given them an explicit this is happening? way to reach us in person. Indonesia is a very interesting case. We were They have not raised any issues with us. blocked for less than four days and then we Economic policies We are working on an election task force, had very good conversations with the govern- which looks at all the issues across India — ment in Indonesia and by now we enjoy an hashtags, news, what is going viral so we excellent relationship with Kominfo (the IT need to be in the make sure that we can run a responsible elec- ministry of Indonesia). tion on the platform. In Indonesia, the situation has turned We also do not do political advertising. A around so much that now we are a fully gov- people’s interest lot of focus of the EC is on transparency in ernment supported platform, and Kominfo political advertising and we don’t do political actually is now on TikTok. he Congress-led UPA government has provided a advertising at all. We are also not engaging We are expanding our teams so we abide bonanza to the corporates and the richer sections. with politicians or parties on their cam- by the local laws and have escalation mecha- T From 13 billionaires (with net assets of ~5,000 crore paigns. So we don’t do paid hash- nisms in place. and above) in 2003, by 2012 there were 122 such billionaires. tag campaigns with political par- The issue in the US comes Between 2009 and 2013 a massive ~21 lakh crores of central ties at all. from the Musical.ly days (which government tax revenues were given away as taxes forgone We are engaging with the TikTok acquired), which we have or in tax concessions. The government has resorted to massive nodal officers of the EC and are settled with them. disinvestment selling more than ~91,000 crores worth of here to abide by the local laws We are a responsible player. shares of public sector units between 2009 and 2013. The gov- and model code of conduct. We know we need to be ahead of ernment has allowed the loot of natural resources of the coun- HELENA LERSCH these issues, we need to engage Could you please elaborate on try whether it be land, minerals, gas or spectrum. Windfall Global Public Policy with the government and we the election task force? profits have been made by big business houses and private Director, TikTok need to understand the local companies through this plunder. ILLUSTRATION BY BINAY SINHA We have a cross functional elec- challenges. The government did not take measures to tap the tax tion task force, which means there potential — either by raising effective rates or cracking down is public relations, public policy, We are not doing How are you engaging with on massive evasion of taxes by the wealthy. The tax-GDP ratio With the Lok Sabha election two months away, Helena Lersch, global public policy director of TikTok content moderation, escalation. proactive outreach the government in India? has remained lower than they were in 2007-08. Instead of is a busy woman. Lersch has working to set up a war room that will monitor Indian election related There are a lot of functions to the government We are engaging with the rele- raising resources, the curbing of government expenditure activity in real time, and keep all possible channels of communication open with not just the working on the India task force institutions or vant ministries — the IT min- became a priority. There have been cuts in expenditure bear- Election Commission of India but also other government agencies. In a conversation with Neha to ensure that the election is safe. parties. They are istry, the Ministry of Home ing on the lives of people such as on agriculture and rural Alawadhi and Karan Choudhury, Lersch talks about the challenges facing the Chinese content That is a real time task for us. really not our focus. Affairs, and the Election development (which includes MNREGA); health and educa- platform and how it is here to stay. Edited excerpts: When the EC observes an issue They can use our Commission. We’re making sure tion. Fertilizer, food and petroleum subsidies have been cut on TikTok, they can reach out platform as any that they know how to reach us, down. Subsidies on food and fuel were cut by ~78,000 crore using an escalation email that is other user and have a proactive strategy to in the last three years. monitored 24x7. They have three engage with them. It is very The entry of Foreign Capital (FDI and FIIs) has been allowed nodal officers on the EC side, and important for us to be here. We in all spheres. FDI caps have been enhanced in the banking, ‘It is a decisive year we have opened up several ways of commu- have an India based grievance officer. infrastructure, real estate, defence production and agri-busi- nication with them including my personal ness. The FDI in multi-brand retail is a graphic example of phone number. If someone reports certain content, how how the interests of Walmart and other foreign supermarket We have been working on this task force soon can you take it down? chains supersede the livelihood and employment of 4 crore for weeks and made sure everyone on the job Very soon.
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