India's Modi Gov't Purged Millions of Muslim Voters Before Elections in "Direct Attack" on Democracy

[Uncle Joe]

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won big in state-level elections this week, with the Hindu nationalist BJP now controlling over 70% of the country. Leading opposition politician and Chief Minister of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee has refused to recognize the results as legitimate, accusing the Modi government of mass disenfranchisement. Ahead of elections, 9 million names were deleted from the rolls under a process called “Special Intensive Revision” (SIR). The process, conducted by India’s Election Commission, “vitiates and creates an electoral advantage by pitting Hindu voters against Muslim voters,” says political scientist Gilles Verniers. Rather than the advertised purge of deceased and duplicate voters, SIR appears to have primarily affected Muslims and other minorities. Nearly 3 million voters in West Bengal, where more than a quarter of the population is Muslim, were unable to cast their vote.

From New Delhi, journalist Arfa Khanum Sherwani says blatant election interference has destroyed Indians’ faith in democratic elections. “The general public does not think the elections are free and fair in India,” she explains. “So this is a sad day for democracy, for people who believe that not only today — but tomorrow’s — India should also be democratic.”

[popsdenver]

1. Coming soon

to another democracy that we all love, and cherish...............

The corrupt "Powers To Be" are all on a roll, and gaining momentum with each day that passes.............

The Republicans in America, are coming at us from all directions. The greedy, corrupt, powerful in other nations are all doing the same, and feeding into each other......

[Uncle Joe]

2. I'm thinking a global cartel of oligarchs is actively trying to kill democracy

because that's the only institution that can hold them to account, and they see themselves as apart from humanity, and above nations.

So they play divide and conquer wherever they can find a fault line or opportunity to keep the people distracted and weak.

[popsdenver]

3. You are absolutely correct UJ

There is a new world order being hammered out at the highest levels............

The top players are Russia, America, and China, with many other, somewhat irrelevant piss ant nations jockeying for lesser positions .......