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From Ashok Lavasa's dissent and the controversial appointment of election commissioners to voter-roll deletions, secretive decisions and the reported revolt within the Election Commission, the story of how India's electoral watchdog has been losing public trust.
The Election Commission has told the Supreme Court that 22.21 lakh of the 27.16 lakh West Bengal electors deleted through SIR adjudication have appealed for restoration. The figure does not prove that the deletions were wrongful, but the huge backlog and the timing of the appellate process raise an important question about electoral due process: what happens when a voter's eligibility is restored only after the election is over?
The BJP often portrays student protests as anti-national and undemocratic. Yet its own political rise was deeply rooted in the student movements of the 1970s, from Gujarat's Nav Nirman Andolan to Jayaprakash Narayan's call for Sampoorna Kranti. This article revisits that overlooked history and examines the striking contrast between the protests once celebrated by the Sangh Parivar and the protests it condemns today.
