Bihar voter purge exposes India’s fake democracy

Millions of minority voters deleted under Modi regime’s new exercise.

India’s so-called “world’s largest democracy” has once again been exposed as a managed illusion, as the Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government has turned Bihar into a testing ground for mass disenfranchisement targeting Muslims and other marginalized communities under the so-called “Special Intensive Revision” (SIR) of electoral rolls.

According to Kashmir Media Service, under the SIR exercise, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has deleted 6.8 million voters—around eight percent of Bihar’s total electorate of 79 million—in just a few weeks, on the pretext of “verification.” Civil rights groups, however, say the drive is a politically motivated campaign to erase Muslim, Christian, Dalit and backward-caste voters who are unlikely to support the BJP in upcoming elections.

The purge has caused widespread outrage after the case of Clarence Toppo, a 38-year-old Christian Dalit IT worker from Ara, came to light. He discovered that his 74-year-old mother, Mary Toppo, had been declared dead, and that he and his two brothers were also removed from the voter list without verification. “If I live in India and my voter identification is taken from me, that’s a very big deal,” Toppo said, describing how his family was targeted simply for belonging to minority identities.

Human rights organisations, including the People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), have warned that the SIR process was deliberately rushed to facilitate large-scale deletions. Officials were reportedly given only one month to verify thousands of voters each—a task that took a full year during similar revisions in 2003. “Because of this arbitrariness, many genuine people were excluded,” said PUCL’s Sarfaraz Uddin, adding that this was “not incompetence but strategy.”

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