India, July 18 -- Sushil Kumar, who came to Delhi from Bihar and has been a resident of Delhi for multiple decades. In the year 2003, he was a resident of East Delhi, Pandav Nagar area. He voted in that year's Delhi assembly election from the Laxmi Nagar booth. He had filled an enumeration form earlier, but nothing moved until a Booth Level Officer knocked on his door this month as part of Phase III of the Special Intensive Revision.

The BLO came, the form was filled properly, and his family's voter registration is now in order. For Sushil Kumar, the system eventually worked. For his neighbours in other parts of the city, it has not. In Khajuri Khas, three residents who say they have lived in the same locality for 15 years, Jugnesh Singh...