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  • Opinion
  • 1 May 2023
  • 1 min read

A Political Space for All: Towards Greater Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities

Making political party offices and places of campaign accessible for persons with disabilities, ensuring accessible transport for public programmes and campaigns, mentorship and financial support programmes for disabled workers will encourage inclusion

This opinion was published in The Indian Express on May 01, 2023.

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About the Authors
Shashank Pandey

Shashank is a Research Fellow at Vidhi. He works with the Climate and Ecosystem team wherein he focuses on legal and policy issues related to current government measures around climate and environment. Prior to joining Vidhi, Shashank worked as a LAMP (Legislative Assistant to Member of Parliament) Fellow with a Lok Sabha MP wherein he worked on environment, disability and tech related matters. He also drafted two Private Members' Bill for the MP which were introduced in Lok Sabha. Shashank was also a Javed Abidi Fellow at NCPEDP wherein he worked on issues related to inclusivity and accessibility. His work as a Javed Abidi fellow primarily focused on the exclusion of disabled people from the political landscape. He likes to write on multiple policy related issues and his articles have regularly featured across platforms. Shashank graduated from Dr Ram Manohar Lohia National Law University with BA LLB (IP hons) in 2021

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