India opposition protests against the election roll review Election news

The police briefly detained some legislators in the demonstration, including opposition leader Rahul Gandhi.

The opposition parties in India held a protest calling for a decline Review the voter list In the Eastern State of Bihar, where the election date is determined in the Legislative Authority in November.

Hundreds of lawmakers and supporters began protesting on Monday from Parliament and facing the police, who were invited to walk towards the office of the election committee in the capital, New Delhi. The police briefly detained dozens of lawmakers, including opposition leader Rahul Gandhi.

“This battle is not political but to save the constitution,” Gandhi, a member of the Indian National Congress Party.

“The truth is before the entire country.”

More than 200 people participated in the protest, according to police officials, which were broadcast from NDTV.

India’s opposition accuses the election committee of rushing by reviewing the huge elections roll in East Bihar, saying that the exercise may make huge numbers of citizens unable to vote.

Gandhi said last week that reviewing the electoral lists in Bihar is “CHORI Institutional (theft) to deny their right to vote.”

Review of approximately 80 million voter registrations

The review, which affects approximately 80 million voters, includes strict documentation requirements from citizens, which leads to fears that they may lead to the exclusion of weak groups, especially those who cannot produce the papers required to prove their nationality.

Some of the required documents include birth certificates, passports and high school diplomas.

Critics and opposition leaders said that it is difficult to reach in Bihar, where the rate of knowledge of reading and writing is among the lowest rates in India. They said that the exercise will affect minorities more than others, including Muslims, and prevent them from voting.

India does not have a unique national identity card. The identity card related to the widespread biometric, which is called Aadhaar, is not among the documents listed by the election committee as an acceptable evidence to review the election roll.

Prime Minister Narendra ModiHindu National Ruler BJP NDTV reported that “opposition leaders’ protest” over a “studied strategy” to create a “chaos”, NDTV said.

The election committee says “Intensive Review”.

The Electoral Commission denied allegations of depriving voters and promised to ensure that no qualified voter is left. ” He also said that the “intensive review” is a routine update required to avoid “inserting the names of foreign immigrants.”

According to the committee, 49.6 million voters were included in a similar exercise in 2003 is not required to provide any other documents. But this still leaves nearly 30 million other voters who are likely to be weak. A similar review of voters throughout the entire country is scheduled to be repeated 1.4 billion people.

Bihar is the decisive electoral battlefield, where the Pharaya Jaraata Party only ruled in an alliance. The election results may likely affect the balance of power in the Indian Parliament.

The Bharatiya Jatata Party supported the review and said it was necessary to update the new voters and delete the names of those who died or moved to other states.

He also claimed that the exercise is necessary to get rid of the non -documented Muslim immigrants from Bangladesh. However, many Indian citizens, most of whom were Muslims, were arrested, and even deporting them to Bangladesh as part of a campaign launched by the Bharatia Jatata Party.

Critics and opposition leaders also warned that the exercise was similar to what the 2019 citizenship list said in the province of Asam in eastern India, which left nearly two million people at the risk of lack of sexual absence.

Many of those who left the final citizenship list were Muslims who declared “foreigners”. He faced some long periods of detention.