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The week in Indian Politics
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Opposition claims that voter-roll revisions could disenfranchise eligible voters hardened into a broader challenge to electoral neutrality and representation. Court action and the growing focus on poor, migrant, and minority voters raised the dispute from administrative procedure to democratic legitimacy.
The state response escalated from mass detentions and arrests of protest leaders to detaining journalists, restricting Jantar Mantar, and delaying releases. An abduction allegation and recurring reports about detained or released activists widened scrutiny from crowd control to due process and media freedom.
The government left possible changes to long-term capital-gains and securities-transaction taxes open ahead of the Union Budget, keeping the issue under debate without committing to reform.
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