Jiyaul Haque

The Bihar electoral revision, which will impact regions like Seemanchal the most, touches not only on the issue of domicile with impacts on the upcoming census but also illegal migration which will filter out non-citizens.

There are, today, multifrontal questions confronting the election architecture of India. In a time when its own integrity is under question, why is the EC unwilling to disclose information when millions of voters risk disenfranchisement? Has the judiciary been able to provide an accountability mechanism? And why, at 79 years, is the right to vote still not being considered a fundamental one?