Sravasti Dasgupta

5 min read "The BJP didn't understand the gravity and intensity of the Jantar Mantar protests right from the beginning.

At the centre of the storm is a 40-point questionnaire that seeks identification details like parents' particulars, Aadhaar, passport, Voter ID numbers, among others, that are not asked during a census but in NPR.

At the centre of the storm is a 40-point questionnaire that seeks identification details like parents’ particulars, Aadhaar, passport, Voter ID numbers, among others, that are not asked during a census but in NPR.

Listen to this article: New Delhi: The much delayed population census, now underway, meant to enumerate India’s population, provide socio-economic indices for statistical analysis that can inform policy, has triggered allegations of being used to...

Maharashtra, Karnataka, Telangana, Delhi, Andhra Pradesh, which had elections between 2023 and 2025, recorded the most total deletions. The scale of deletions has again raised questions about the legitimacy of electoral rolls prior to the SIR. If such large-scale ineligible voters existed, how were they legitimate to vote in recent elections?

Listen to this article: Draft voter lists released for the third phase of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) reveal that 6.15 crore names have been removed from the voter rolls across 17 states and union territories. While these figures are likely...

Minutes of a meeting headed by a state’s chief secretary show that the state machinery is set to be busy hosting a month-long programme from September 17 to October 17. Lamps will be lit, 1.25 lakh public representatives will gather to mark 25 years of Modis public service and influencers will visit transformative project sites on taxpayers dime.

Minutes of a meeting headed by a state's chief secretary show that the state machinery is set to be busy hosting a month-long programme from September 17 to October 17. Lamps will be lit, 1.25 lakh public representatives will gather to mark 25 years of Modi's 'public service' and influencers will visit 'transformative' project sites on taxpayers' dime.

Rights activists point to the Lal Quila Yamuna Bridge polling booth, under the Chandi Chowk constituency, as evidence of what is happening to the poor living in informal settlements prone to demolitions during the SIR.

Listen to this article: New Delhi: Gaytri Devi, a resident of Delhi’s Chandni Chowk assembly constituency, has been a booth level agent (BLA) with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for over three decades, helping the party in identifying voters in the...