Annie Zaidi"...ambitious project to dismantle the one-person-one-vote system by creating a subset of “unpersons”, as George Orwell termed persons who were vapourised in his book 1984, his dystopian prediction of times to come. M S Golwalkar, one of Hindutva’s leading ideologues, presented his vision of nationhood in 1939...
A theocratic state of the kind he envisaged is now emerging, and although he never said so, it would have to be a one-party state..."
The Election Commission’s Disenfranchisement Chaos In West Bengal Masks A Larger Project. Ask Amit Shah
Millions of Bengali Muslims know, more than anyone, that spelling mismatches and birthdate errors can end not just their voting rights but also land them in detention centres and removal from Indian territory. The way the Election Commission is revising the voter roll in West Bengal is so chaotic and ham-handed that it appears to not only dovetail neatly with the BJP’s desire for victory but with the party’s larger project, which, as Home Minister Amit Shah put it, was to ‘detect, delete and deport’.