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indianexpress.com/article/citi...Delhi shut six Metro stations Monday ahead of renewed election-roll protests, a day after India's Supreme Court ordered normal services and safeguards against unlawful detention
Opposition politicians, protesters and journalists are getting arrested en masse and brutalized by police
The Modi regime is afraid
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwr5y2lgr4gdoIndia's opposition parties are marching to the Supreme Court in Delhi to demand the resignation of the election chief over alleged voter fraud.
This will be the latest in a series of demonstrations in Delhi, with thousands of security forces deployed and roads barricaded in the capital.
Attempts to hold a protest by the roach Janata Party pressure group over the weekend led to thousands of demonstrators being detained.
Opposition parties allege that under Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, India's voter rolls are being manipulated to benefit Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Both the Election Commission and the BJP have rejected the charge.
The opposition lawmakers want to submit a memorandum to Chief Justice Surya Kant, but he has told reporters he declined the meeting citing "certain reasons".
He did not provide the reasons, but media reports citing the letter have said that he pointed out that some of the issues the opposition wanted to raise with him were also pending before the court. The BBC has not seen the letter.
"Every Indian citizen has the right to approach the court, and we will hear their concerns and grant whatever is due under the law," he told reporters.
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, meanwhile, has called "all opposition parties, civil society groups [and] all those who believe in democracy" to join Monday's march.
indianexpress.com/article/citi...Delhi shut six Metro stations Monday ahead of renewed election-roll protests, a day after India's Supreme Court ordered normal services and safeguards against unlawful detention
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...-gyanesh-kumarThe 38-year-old migrant worker, born into a poor Muslim family, was not alone. Since last year, 130 million names – more than the population of Japan – have been removed from India’s electoral roll through a process known as SIR, or special intensive revision. In the nearly eight decades since India’s independence, never have the voter rolls shrunk by such a huge amount over such a short time.
The Narendra Modi government has called SIR a legitimate exercise to clean up the electoral rolls. Overseen by the election commission, tens of millions of dead and duplicate names have been removed. Yet so have the names of millions of living Indian citizens.
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