'Strikes At Heart Of Constitution': Top Court Judge On Mass Deletion Of Voters
Supreme Court Justice Ujjal Bhuyan criticized the mass deletion of voters, labeling it a violation of the constitutional order and the right to equality. He argued that disenfranchising citizens strikes at the heart of the Indian Constitution.
Why it matters
The judge's comments provide a significant legal perspective on the integrity of electoral rolls and the protection of universal adult suffrage in India.
Justice Ujjal Bhuyan of the Supreme Court on Sunday called "a negation of the constitutional order" any process that takes away the voting rights of a huge number of Indian citizens. He asserted that "no authority can do it; no court can condone it"."The Indian Constitution does not provide for two classes of citizens: citizens with voting rights and citizens without voting rights," Justice Bhuyan said in a speech in Hyderabad."If any process results in disenfranchising millions and millions of Indian citizens -- making them second-class citizens in their own country in the sense of being citizens without voting rights -- such a process is intrinsically arbitrary. No amount of whataboutery can justify it...
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