Politics do not require any educational qualification, but the ruling BJP is now pushing for qualified netas that may force other parties to follow suit. The BJP-linked Rambhau Mhalgi Prabodhini, affiliated to University of Mumbai, is starting a nine-month post-graduate (PG) diploma course in politics from this July at Rs 2.5 lakh. FREE PRESS JOURNALS…
For the first in India, a structured Post-Graduate course to comprehensively understand leadership-science, politics and governance was launched by Mumbai based Rambhau Mhalgi Prabodhini (RMP), a training and research academy working for capacity building of people’s representatives, political party workers as well as voluntary social workers. In 2017, RMP set-up Indian Institute of Democratic Leadership…
The Indian Institute of Democratic Leadership is training political hopefuls who align with the ruling BJP to be competent. Vinay Sahasrabuddhe is on a mission that is at once impossibly simple and yet somehow insurmountable: He is training Indian politicians to be competent. Not just any politicians, mind you—Hindu nationalist politicians. Sahasrabuddhe, a senior official…
The IIDL’s curriculum includes ‘basic political concepts, media management, constituency management, public speaking and nationalism,’ among others. Simran Kaur Reel, 24, is interning with the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) women’s wing; Sahil M Parsekar, 22, is working as a volunteer with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in the national capital. While the two have different…
