India, April 17 -- That the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) politics and larger worldview is antithetical to the constitutional framework of the Indian republic is a charge often made by its rivals. That it is consistently undermining the institutional guardrails of maintaining democratic sanctity is another such.

Opposition parties cite the religion-based discrimination in conferring retrospective citizenship rights via the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) as an example of the former. And they claim the Election Commission of India's blatant singling out of West Bengal, and its Muslim majority districts, to put millions of voters, under a unique "logical inconsistency" based adjudication under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) which ca...