#voter rolls

Barricades at the Election Commission: INDIA bloc MPs march, are detained, and demand the CEC quit

Around 300 INDIA bloc MPs marched from Parliament to the Election Commission on Tuesday demanding Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar resign over the SIR voter-roll revision; leaders were briefly detained.

7 October 2026 · 1 min read

Voters queue at a polling station in New Delhi

Opinion

A vote deleted is a voice stolen: the Election Commission must answer, not arrest the question

When MPs marching to the Election Commission are detained 100 metres from its door, the institution has not defended itself; it has confessed its fear. A voter roll that citizens cannot question is not a register. It is a verdict delivered in advance.

6 October 2026 · 2 min read

India

'Gyanesh, time to resign': Rahul, Priyanka among 260 detained as INDIA bloc march on Election Commission is stopped in Delhi

Around 260 opposition MPs and leaders, including Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, were detained in New Delhi on Tuesday after police stopped the INDIA bloc's march to the Election Commission demanding Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar's resignation over alleged voter-roll deletions.

6 October 2026 · 2 min read

Tamil Nadu

Polls open under a cash cloud: Dharapuram and Madurantakam vote in bypolls the TVK government cannot afford to lose

Voting began at 7 a.m. on Tuesday in the Dharapuram and Madurantakam Assembly bypolls, with brisk turnout reported in rural booths. The contests, forced by defections, are being fought under persistent allegations of cash and gift distribution that the ruling TVK has failed to dispel.

6 October 2026 · 2 min read

Vidhana Soudha in Bengaluru, seat of the Karnataka government

India

4.5 million names at risk: Karnataka CM's dharna forces EC action on fake Form-7 voter deletions

Karnataka CM D.K. Shivakumar staged a five-hour dharna at the CEO's office in Bengaluru, alleging a conspiracy to delete around 4.5 million eligible voters — poor, minority, Dalit and backward communities — through bulk pre-printed Form-7 applications. Hours later, the EC ordered action against false filers across all 224 constituencies.

2 October 2026 · 2 min read

Voters queue at a polling station in Thiruvananthapuram during the 2011 Kerala Assembly election

India

Denied a venue, they came anyway: Gen Z-led voter-roll protest grips Mumbai's Shivaji Park

The Gen Z-led Cockroach Janata Party took its demand for Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar's resignation to Mumbai's Shivaji Park on Gandhi Jayanti, hours after police denied permission for the venue. With actors Naseeruddin Shah, Shabana Azmi and Vishal Dadlani joining protesters and a 'Jail Bharo' agitation announced, the row over the Special Intensive Revision of voter rolls has moved from newspaper revelations to the streets.

2 October 2026 · 2 min read