The year was 1988 and there was a special booth in the Talkatora stadium of Delhi where thousands of workers including MLAs, panchayat leaders and district unit chiefs would stand in que to enter their details on a “computer” in that special session of the Congress party. These special booths collected detailed information of all these workers and then collated it into the newly created database for Rajiv Gandhi. This was the first time that the words “computer” and “data” were being extensively used in Indian elections.
According to R.D. Pradhan, the then chief-of-staff to Rajiv Gandhi, a list of 170 MP constituencies were thus derived using these vast amounts of data for the Prime Minister to focus his energies in the 1989 elections “which would make all the differ
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