Within the world's largest democracy, a quiet institutional rupture has surfaced: senior officials inside India's own election commission raised formal objections to voter roll purges that removed millions of citizens from electoral registers. The dissent, now made public, suggests that the tension between maintaining accurate rolls and protecting the right to vote became something more fraught — a dispute over whether the process itself was being bent toward political ends. At stake is not merely a bureaucratic controversy, but the foundational promise that every eligible voice will be counte
India's Election Commission Under Fire Over Voter Roll Purges
Millions of people were excluded from voting rolls, potentially disenfranchising voters from participating in elections.