Rahul Shastri

Rahul Shastri is a researcher associated with the Bharat Jodo Abhiyaan

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The greater disenfranchisement: SIR 2.0 is worse than BiharSign In to read

December 17,2025 06:40:13 AM

If this looming disaster has not yet made headlines, it is because the information is scattered, staggered and shrouded. The repeated and state-wise extensions of the deadline by the ECI have ensured that the final figures would arrive in four instalments, thus masking the big picture

Wed, Dec 17, 2025

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Yogendra Yadav writes: Let’s audit Bihar SIR. It makes for sad readingSubscriber Only

October 07,2025 07:34:07 AM

Although SC interventions allayed fears of mass disenfranchisement, the exercise has left much to be desired from the standpoint of accuracy equity, transparency, fairness

Tue, Oct 07, 2025

While the Supreme Court’s intervention has checked some of the disenfranchising impulse of the SIR, at least in Bihar, the possibility of any further disenfranchisement depends on the nature of the documents considered admissible.. (Illustration by C R Sasikumar)

Mass deletion of voters is looming over Bihar SIRSubscriber Only

August 26,2025 07:20:58 AM

Unless the ECI is made to adopt more expansive criteria of eligible documents, more than two crore face removal.

Tue, Aug 26, 2025

Yogendra Yadav, Rahul Shastri write on SIR: In Bihar, the edge of disenfranchisementSubscriber Only

August 12,2025 07:10:33 AM

If ECI adheres to its fiat of asking for one of the 11 specified documents, at least 50 per cent of those required to produce a document could be excluded from the final voters list in Bihar.

Tue, Aug 12, 2025

Bihar SIR, data indicates, is not an exercise in revision but mass deletionSubscriber Only

July 31,2025 06:32:53 AM

If the SIR leads to a Bihar-like drop in the Electors to Adult Population Ratio in the entire country, we are looking at potential disenfranchisement of about nine crore Indians

Thu, Jul 31, 2025

Yogendra Yadav writes: On ground in Bihar, Election Commission of India writes a dystopian fictionSubscriber Only

July 24,2025 06:50:08 AM

ECI’s claims about progress of electoral roll revision in Bihar are sharply at odds with first-hand accounts of chaos and procedural violations

Thu, Jul 24, 2025

In Bihar, it’s not just about a voter listSubscriber Only

July 09,2025 07:46:37 AM

A sample survey shows that the very principle of universal adult franchise is in danger of being undermined by the way EC's special intensive revision exercise is being conducted

Wed, Jul 09, 2025

After four phases, six takeaways: Women’s voting patterns, the dips in voter turnoutSubscriber Only

May 16,2024 07:15:01 AM

It seems the final turnout of Election 2024 will not be too different than in 2019. However, the causes for this seem more localised this time

Thu, May 16, 2024

What phase 1 voter turnout says about BJP’s chances at the pollsSubscriber Only

April 25,2024 08:00:55 AM

It is too early to tell if these are indications of disenchantment of three of the four ‘castes’ posited by the Prime Minister — farmers, youth women and the poor — but a mass of observations pointing in a similar direction can be worrying signs for the BJP.

Thu, Apr 25, 2024