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India opposition parties call for protests over ‘vote theft’

Global Published 1 October 2026, 06:52 · archived 1 Oct 2026

NEW DELHI: India’s opposition parties announced on Wednesday planned protests to “save democracy”, escalating their campaign against the election commission after a newspaper investigation suggested impropriety in a large-scale voter roll revision. Politicians have accused the head of Election Commission of India — long regarded as the guardian of the world’s largest democracy — of acting at the behest of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party. The election body has rejected the allegations, saying all its decisions were legally valid, while its chief Gyanesh K...

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