CONFERENCE SCHEDULE 2020


INDIAN DEMOCRACY AT WORK CONFERENCE – ‘MONEY POWER IN POLITICS’ VENUE – ISB, Hyderabad Campus
DAY 1 – Thursday – 9TH JANUARY 2020
TIME	VENUE	SESSION	SPEAKERS
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM	Khemka Auditorium	Registrations
9:00 AM – 10:30 AM	Khemka Auditorium	Inaugural Session	Shri. M Venkaiah Naidu, Hon. Vice President of India Jayaprakash Narayan, General Secretary, Foundation for Democratic Reforms; Rajendra Srivastava, Dean, Indian School of Business; Appa Rao Podile, Vice Chancellor, University of Hyderabad
10:30 AM – 10:45 AM	Tea Break
10:45AM – 12:45 PM	Khemka Auditorium	PLENARY – Legitimate Campaign Expenditure in Indian Politics	Chair – T.S. Krishnamurthy, Former Chief Election Commissioner of India; Konda Vishweshwar Reddy, Former Member of Parliament; Milan Vaishnav, Director, South Asia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; N. Bhaskara Rao, Chairman, Centre for Media Studies; Natasha Jog, Election Integrity Lead, India, South Asia, Facebook; Prashant Kishor, Political Strategist and Politician
12:45 PM – 1:45 PM	Atrium	Lunch and Networking
1:45 PM – 3:15 PM	Khemka Auditorium	Mechanisms to Reduce Campaign Expenditure	Chair – K Madhava Rao, Former Chief Secretary & Former State Election Commissioner, AP; Amit Varma, Writer, Journalist and Podcaster; Kumar Ketkar, Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha; Rajat Kumar, Chief Electoral Officer, Telangana; Ram Mohan Naidu K, Member of Parliament, National General Secretary, Telugu Desam Party
1:45 PM – 3:15 PM	Lecture Theatre – AC 3	Bringing Transparency in Political Funding in India and Learnings from the World	Chair – K. Padmanabhaiah, Chairman, Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI); Jashwant B Mehta, Founder, Forum for Presidential Democracy; Krishna K Tummala, Professor, Kansas State University; Niranjan Sahoo, Senior Fellow, Observer Research Foundation; Varun Santhosh, Researcher
1:45 PM – 3:15 PM	Lecture Theatre – AC 8	Trends in Campaign Expenditure	Chair – Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy, Former Secretary General, Communist Party of India; Ajit Phadnis, Assistant Professor, IIM Indore; J C Diwakar Reddy, Former Member of Parliament; Shelly Mahajan, Association for Democratic Reforms
3:15 PM – 3:30 PM	Tea Break
3:30 PM – 5:45 PM	Khemka Auditorium	PLENARY – Organisational Burden on Political Parties	Chair – Jasti Chelameswar, Former Judge, Supreme Court; Asaduddin Owaisi, Member of Parliament, President, AIMIM; Jennifer Bussell, Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley; K Laxman, Telangana State President, BJP; Kalvakuntla Kavitha, Former MP and TRS Member; Sitaram Yechury, Secretary General, CPI (M); Rajeev Gowda, Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha

INDIAN DEMOCRACY AT WORK CONFERENCE – ‘MONEY POWER IN POLITICS \| VENUE – ISB, Hyderabad Campus
DAY 2 – Friday – 10TH JANUARY 2020
TIME	VENUE	SESSION	SPEAKERS
8:30 AM – 10:30 AM	Khemka Auditorium	PLENARY – Illegitimate Expenditure in Indian Politics and Ways to Curb It	Chair – Jayaprakash Narayan, General Secretary, Foundation for Democratic Reforms; Ashok Lavasa, Election Commissioner of India; Ram Madhav, National General Secretary, BJP; Carolyn Elliott, Retd. Faculty, University of Vermont; Priyanka Chaturvedi, Politician, Shiv Sena; R. Jagannathan, Editorial Director, Swarajya
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM	Tea Break
11:00AM – 12:30 PM	Khemka Auditorium	Electoral Reforms to Combat Illegitimate Expenditure	Chair – Amit Varma, Writer, Journalist and Podcaster; Milan Vaishnav, Director, South Asia Programme, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace ; C Anjaneya Reddy, IPS (retd.); Jashwant Mehta, Founder, Forum for Presidential Democracy; Peter Mayer, Associate Professor, University of Adelaide;
11:00AM – 12:30 PM	Lecture Theatre – AC 3	Evidence of Vote Buying in India and Comparative Experience with Other Countries	Chair – Konda Vishweshwar Reddy, Former Member of Parliament; Samuel Asher, Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University; Sarthak Bagchi, Assistant Professor, Ahmedabad University ; Shabana Mitra, Assistant Professor, IIM Bangalore; Dhanmanjiri Sathe, Professor, Savitribai Phule University
11:00AM – 12:30 PM	Lecture Theatre – AC 8	India: Deepening Democracy or Defective Democracy?	Chair – Shareen Joshi, Associate Professor, Georgetown University Ashutosh Varshney, Professor, Brown University Abhishek Chakravarthy, Assistant Professor, Manchester University Rahul Verma, Fellow, Centre for Policy Research Sabyasachi Das, Assistant Professor, Asoka University
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM	Atrium	Lunch and Networking
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM	Khemka Auditorium	Entry barriers in Indian politics	Chair – Ashutosh Varshney, Professor, Brown University Aliz Toth, Stanford University Gilles Verniers, Assistant Professor, Ashoka University Neelanjan Sircar, Assistant Professor, Ashoka University Priyanka Chaturvedi, Politician, Shiv Sena
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM	Lecture Theatre – AC 3	Service Delivery and Decentralisation to Reduce Party Maintenance Costs	Chair – Yamini Aiyar, President and Chief Executive, Centre for Policy Research Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay, Professor, Economics and Planning Unit, ISI Diego Maiorano, Visiting Research Fellow, NUS Institute of South Asian Studies Gadikota Sreekanth Reddy, MLA, Rayachoti, YSR Congress Party
3:00 PM – 3:30 PM	Tea Break
3:30 PM – 5:30 PM	Khemka Auditorium	Concluding Session	Chair – Pradeep Chhibber, Professor, University of California, Berkeley Ashok Lavasa, Election Commissioner of India Ram Madhav, National General Secretary, BJP Ashwini Chhatre, Associate Professor of Public Policy, ISB Jayaprakash Narayan, General Secretary, Foundation for Democratic Reforms K. C. Suri, Professor, University of Hyderabad