India, Oct. 5 -- There is something profoundly unsettling about how the country's constitutional institutions, which are supposed to protect the people's rights, are themselves becoming the subject of serious questions about their own functioning. Even worse, we had to wait this long to question it, though it was plain as day.

Not to belittle the investigative work by Ritika Chopra of The Indian Express and the expose, but hasn't Rahul Gandhi been sounding the alarm since 2023? The SIR has been going on in various parts of the country since June 2025. Didn't activists raise objections to wrongful deletions? Didn't civil society organisations question the manner in which legitimate voters were being made to establish their eligibility? A...