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The Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls is removing voters from the register, with marginalised communities bearing the greatest risk of disenfranchisement. The process is portrayed as reinforcing India’s Hindu nationalist political project.
6:00 AMAl Jazeera
The founder of India’s “Cockroach” protest movement is due to appear in court Saturday after police took the leader into custody. The case comes as a broader dispute over the country’s voter rolls keeps New Delhi under pressure.
10:34 PMBloomberg Markets
Jantar Mantar, an 18th-century landmark long associated with demonstrations in Delhi, has been denotified as a protest site.
8:41 PMBBCSummary
The Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls is removing voters from the register, with marginalised communities bearing the greatest risk of disenfranchisement. The process is portrayed as reinforcing India’s Hindu nationalist political project.
The decisive shift is that voter-roll administration is becoming a political battleground, not a routine
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A voter purge can alter political representation without changing a single vote count.
Summary
The founder of India’s “Cockroach” protest movement is due to appear in court Saturday after police took the leader into custody. The case comes as a broader dispute over the country’s voter rolls keeps New Delhi under pressure.
Police custody has turned a voter-roll dispute into a direct legal confrontation with a protest
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The case links electoral-roll changes to the treatment of political dissent, raising the stakes for India’s election oversight and civil liberties.
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Jantar Mantar, an 18th-century landmark long associated with demonstrations in Delhi, has been denotified as a protest site.
The decision removes one of the capital's most visible and established spaces for public protest.
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Closing a landmark protest venue could narrow the practical space for public dissent in India's capital.
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