{"id":75638,"date":"2025-12-16T10:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T01:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/16\/india-electoral-roll-special-intensive-revision-threatens-democracy-muslims"},"modified":"2025-12-16T10:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T01:00:07","slug":"indias-electoral-roll-revision-threatens-democracy-and-muslims-say-critics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75638","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s electoral roll revision threatens democracy and Muslims, say critics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opposition claims SIR process being used to disenfranchise minority groups to benefit Narendra Modi\u2019s government<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s political opposition has warned that democracy is under threat amid a controversial exercise to revise the voter register across the country, which critics say will disenfranchise minority voters and entrench the power of the ruling Narendra Modi government.<\/p>\n<p>An debate erupted in India\u2019s parliament last week over the special intensive revision (SIR) process, which is taking place in nine states and three union territories, in one of the biggest revisions of the country\u2019s electoral roll in decades.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/16\/india-electoral-roll-special-intensive-revision-threatens-democracy-muslims\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opposition claims SIR process being used to disenfranchise minority groups to benefit Narendra Modi\u2019s governmentIndia\u2019s political opposition has warned that democracy is under threat amid a controversial exercise to revise the voter register across the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5117,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[516,62,447,433,371,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hinduism","category-india","category-islam","category-narendra-modi","category-religion","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75639,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75638\/revisions\/75639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}