Lokniti network members met at the Department of Political Science, Hyderabad Central University, Hyderabad on 6 – 7th January 2014. Prof. G. Sudarshanam, Head, Dept of Political Science and Sanjay Kumar, Co-Director, Lokniti programme, Centre for Study of Developing Societies welcomed the participants. The network members discussed multiple issues. The most prominent among them was the planning for the National Election Study (NES) 2014. The planning included themes of the questionnaire, sampling and sample size, training and workshop of the field investigators, data entry and data cleaning, marginals and importance of methods training. Some other matters were also brought to the table like few ongoing projects that included Comparative State Politics and Public Policy, State of Democracy in South Asia, State of Indian Farmers, Tracker Poll Round II etc.

The meeting was attended by state coordinators from Assam (Shubrajit Konwar), Arunachal Pradesh (Nani Bath), Meghalaya (R. K. Satapathy), Manipur (Senjam Mangi Singh), Mizoram (Lallian Chhunga), Andhra Pradesh (E. Venkatesu), Gujarat (Bhanu Kumar Parmar and Mahashweta Manishi Jani) Haryana (Kushal Pal), Himachal Pradesh (Ramesh Chauhan), Jammu and Kashmir (Ellora Puri and Gul Mohammad Wani), Karnataka (Veena Devi), Kerela (Sajjad Ibrahim), Madhya Pradesh (Yatindra Singh Sisodia), Maharashtra (Nitin Birmal), Orissa (Prabhat Mohanty), Punjab (Jagrup Singh Shekhon) Rajasthan (Sanjay Lodha), Tamil Nadu (P. Ramajeyam), Uttar Pradesh (Anil Kumar Verma and Sudhir Khare), West Bengal (Suprio Basu), Delhi (Biswajit Mohanty) Jharkhand (Harishwar Dayal) Chhattisgarh (Anupama Saxena) Uttaranchal (Annpurna Nautiyal). Lokniti Network coordinator Sandeep Shastri, co director of Lokniti programme Suhas Palshikar and Sanjay Kumar were also present. K. C. Suri and K. K. Kailash from the Hyderabad University were also present. Other Lokniti associates who attended the meeting were Anuradha Singh, Banasmita Bora, Jyoti Mishra, Kinjal Sampat, Reetika Syal, Rahul Verma, Vibha Attri, Nitin Mehta and Shreyas Sardesai.