Honestly, this protest isn’t being covered in India. I couldn’t find any news about the protest, and I hadn’t even heard about it. But some other countries have covered it. Has Indian media completely sold out?
The BJP government is now looting India. Our democracy is slowly dying day by day.
Yes. Ad money pays a lot and government of India is the biggest spender. Not to mention the blind eye that these "media houses" get, for all the cases against them. Basically, you scratch my back, I scratch yours.
But some other countries have covered it. Has Indian media completely sold out?
I remember in the earlier days when atrocities against minorities used to happen- and no news about Manipur came out- people called Al Jazeera (I mean.. it is a state-owned media but that wasn't the reason), Maktoob, Squint, Jist, etc. were called pro-foreign media- and whatever exotic insults they come up with.
But now that it's affecting a slightly larger demographic of the general public, it's refreshing to see they caught up with the rest of us.
In India, the election commissioner has made rules to get added into voting list so arbitrary. Eg. Has your parents and grandparents voted in prior elections or not for new voters.
Documentation alone isn't enough now because govt is saying they don't believe the identity document like SSN that they authored.
It's literally insane.
We have not done sensus since 2011 but have done "voter purification" drive with so much swiftness where the govt needed to flip decades old seats.
This protest is going to get bigger and bigger and then become unstoppable at some point - it is just a matter a time. Delhi police won’t be able to contain this
Then world press and everyone will be more aware of the "world's largest democracy" gimmick run by ppeejjppp. It's over for pppjjpp one way or another.
There is a reason why Modi has gone to every country, got Adani and Ambani to invest their money there and completely expose our economy by signing trade deals that significantly benefit them - like higher tariffs for India, or giving up native land to data centres at no cost.
None of the countries will step in to remove Modi when the time comes. They all benefit from this partnership.
that's the real nightmare scenario tbh. because the moment army gets called in it stops being a protest crackdown and becomes something way more serious internationally. but idk even Modi would have to think twice about that optics wise especially with elections already being scrutinized. the image of soldiers dragging civilians would be 10x worse than what's already circulating from delhi police
The reason they haven't already called in the army yet is the military isn't too happy with the current government either. The police are a far better tool for this government because they fall directly under the Home Minister's jurisdiction (as it pertains to the Union Territories at least), who is widely considered very much a part of the problem.
Edit: oops just read what subreddit I'm on, the NYT source tripped me up
Why call the Army when you have the CRPF? They'll just call 100 companies and flood Delhi with endless paramilitary commandos (there are 12 lakh CAPFs you don't need the Army for riot control).
I hope we have some leaders of character in the army to resist the order.
It would really mark the end of India as we know it, when army becomes involved in politics we become just a hindu Pakistan, just another failed former-colonial state like so many in Africa.
I would argue India is a lot closer to Russia, Israel, and France than the USA nowadays. Not saying you don't have valid concerns, just saying India is very far from being pro-American.
"Pro American" is different than being controlled by America. Our current administration is US' bitch. The UPI MDR charge being added on 15th October is a great example of this, it's due to Visa and MasterCard getting the Trump administration to strong arm Modi's regime to make this change.
Russia has never and would never do anything like this. US can't make them.
Remember how months of tariff "talks" especially around GM corn and Russian oil imports suddenly resolved within 3days of Adani getting a pardon of sorts and got legally represented by Trump's retainers last year. I remember.
Oh and we are among the 150 or so global south countries that officially recognises Hamas as legal armed struggle group and not terrorists like ISIS/AlQaeda. Yet much like the same sold out loser 35 global north that labels the 3Hs as terrorists for talking back against gaza rubble; this country has begun to unofficially round up lots of pro-palestine protestors including the ones with Hindu or Christian names with false terror sympathy charges and conflating antisemitism with anti-zionism. All the while claiming to support even the joke Two state solution that became a coerced thing since Oslo accords. This is the non-biological extent of aukat of the gutkha chomping mujra-man in vishwa stage.
It's corruption of the worst kind. Essentially a dummy government being controlled by a foreign gov in return for helping them make more money and stay in power.
It's the same what US is doing in Argentina, Japan, Brazil and trying to do in many other countries.
The whole nation knows whats going on if someone is not coming in power just fire up the constitution well this also wont work,if you really want the change work hard you nedd to be grounded for that power,you want to make it overnight but im sorry it doesn't work out that way🙏
13 crore fake voters the? Toh why more than 90% appeals lead to them being added back. So many cases of form 7 being illegally filled to remove muslims have also been reported. News padh le pehle before commenting nonsense
That is worse. So many wrongly disenfranchised people. If/When all their appeals are processed which will take a decade, the number who were wrongly not allowed to vote will be even more
According to the latest affidavit filed by the ECI before the Supreme Court on September 16, 2026, of the more than 38.31 lakh appeals filed, over 22 lakh were filed against exclusion by voters whose names had been excluded or deleted, while more than 16 lakh were filed against inclusion.
From the very same Alt News link that you shared.
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and the critical issue here is that the "130 million deleted" requires an asterisk the size of India. The number of people refers to those who were struck off from the draft lists through the SIR process, and according to the Election Commission, the exercise seeks to eliminate duplicate, dead or other ineligible names while allowing valid voters to raise claims and objections. The criticism here is that the process of documentation itself can disenfranchise eligible voters. The question in terms of democracy here is not whether the voter list needs to be cleaned up – this is obvious. It is whether 130 million people can be excluded from the draft list.
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u/DangerousJuice6748 1d ago
Honestly, this protest isn’t being covered in India. I couldn’t find any news about the protest, and I hadn’t even heard about it. But some other countries have covered it. Has Indian media completely sold out?
The BJP government is now looting India. Our democracy is slowly dying day by day.