The Indian authorities’ removal of over 130 million names from the country’s electoral rolls was arbitrary and deeply flawed.

Indian authorities first stripped millions of citizens of their right to vote and are now beating and jailing them for peacefully protesting these rights violations.

The authorities should immediately scrap the voter roll revision process that has denied India’s most marginalized people their right to vote and other government services.

(London) – The Indian authorities’ removal of over 130 million names from the country’s electoral rolls is arbitrary and deeply flawed, Human Rights Watch said today.

In October 2026, tens of thousands of people across India began demonstrating against the Election Commission of India’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR).…