Assam’s story cannot be understood through borrowed metaphors or distant ideological templates. It demands engagement with its history, its agreements, and its anxieties. Only then can the debate over delimitation move from rhetorical labeling to meaningful democratic dialogue.
Election Commission data from Tamil Nadu and Gujarat contradicts Yogendra Yadav’s claims, showing deletions were driven by deaths, migration, and duplicate registrations, while correction mechanisms remain available to eligible voters.
Yogendra Yadav claimed that while ECI argues that an SIR in Bihar will help weed out illegal Bangladeshi and Rohingya infiltrators from the voter list, it will also remove over 2.5 crore Indian citizens from the electoral roll.
Election Commission rejected claims by Congress leaders of alleged tampering of EVMs in some Haryana seats claiming that BJP won seats with more battery charge levels
Unsurprisingly, highlighting the names and pictures of the Ajmer case convicts is more problematic to Saba Naqvi and Yogendra Yadav than the perpetrators being Ajmer Dargah ‘Khadims’ and a Congress leader.
In the article, Yogendra Yadav argues that apart from asking about caste, the census will also seek details like availability of basic amenities like electricity, water, cooking gas, housing conditions etc. So, if it is about conducting a socio-economic survey and the objective is to uplift the people standing at the last rung, then there is no need to ask about people’s caste identity.