“Why Oppn’s Manufactured Outrage Over Electoral Rolls Is A Threat To Democracy”, News18, 06 Oct 2026.
“In the theater of Indian democracy, few acts are as predictable, or as cynical, as the Opposition’s recurring campaign to undermine constitutional institutions the moment things do not go their way. The recent escalation surrounding the Election Commission of India (EC) and the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls is a textbook case in point. Street protests in national hubs like Delhi and Mumbai, orchestrated by the Congress-led INDIA bloc and its allied ecosystem, have once again brought forth a manufactured “war of narratives”.
At the heart of this manufactured crisis lies a simple, necessary administrative measure: weeding out the deceased, duplicated, and ineligible entries from voter lists to ensure the purity of India’s electoral democracy. Yet, opposition parties, deeply reliant on vote-bank calculations and anxious over shrinking political ground, have framed this routine housekeeping as an existential threat to democracy. It is time to look past the smoke and mirrors of partisan rhetoric and examine the facts…………”
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