Sansad Lab

Interactive civic tools for understanding India's Parliament.

Prototypes

• Manifesto Matcher – answer policy statements, see which party manifesto you align with.
• You Be the MP – vote on a real bill (first scenario: the 2020 farm laws), then see what happened.

Structure

web/             static site (Vercel serves this folder)
  index.html
  app.js
  style.css
  data/          JSON the site loads at runtime
laws/            one JSON file per law/scenario (source of truth)
data/money/      funding / finance datasets (placeholder for now)

laws/ is the source of truth; web/data/ holds copies the site can fetch. Keep them in sync until a build step exists.

Run locally

fetch() needs HTTP, so don't open the file directly:

cd web
python -m http.server 8000

Then open http://localhost:8000.

Data status

Manifesto stances in web/data/manifestos.json are placeholder sample data with fictional parties. Replace them with sourced, cited positions before any public launch. Each real entry should carry a source URL and page reference.

Roadmap

Data stays in plain JSON so it can move to Postgres later (each file is a list of flat-ish records with stable ids).

Deploy

Vercel: import the repo, set Root Directory to web, no build command.