Exclusive: Inside the bulk objections targeting Muslims in Uttarakhand’s SIR
Five men in five Uttarakhand assembly constituencies filed 6,500 objections to strike voters off the rolls in the ongoing special intensive revision. Every name they targeted is Muslim. Each of the five is linked to the BJP.They are the five highest-volume objectors across the state’s 70 constituencies, a Newslaundry analysis found, with individual tallies of applications running from 230 to 4,855. In three of the five, one objector accounted for between 49 and 99 percent of every deletion request filed in that constituency. The norms meant to contain bulk applications have been taken apart…
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