The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls under the Election Commission of India has led to the removal of roughly 6.56 crore names from the draft electoral rolls across 12 states and Union Territories. While the Commission frames this as a technical cleanup—striking off duplicate entries, non‑citizens, and those restored as deceased—the human realityContinue reading “There can’t be a disenfranchised population of 66 million in the world’s largest democracy: What the Supreme Court can do about it.”