Bulldozers flattened their houses in a reserved forest, leaving #Muslim families huddled under tarpaulin on the river’s edge, as the BJP# holds election rallies nearby, its leaders ignoring landless voters they created, reports Sanskrita Bharadwaj
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In #Assam’s Goalpara, evicted #Muslims say they will vote for whoever gives them a place to live—as #BJP vows to displace more than the thousands already homeless, turning displacement itself into a central campaign issue, reports Sanskrita Bharadwaj
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On the shifting sandbanks of Assam, evicted #Muslim families called “Bangladeshis” & “encroachers” are still being asked by political parties to vote—because their ballots remain more valuable than their homes, reports Sanskrita Bharadwaj
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As Assam goes to the polls tomorrow, Muslim-majority constituencies are down from 35 to 20, thousands of #Muslim homes demolished, and, as Sanskrita Bharadwaj reports, their desperation has become a central plank in the campaign
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As Assam goes to the polls tomorrow, Muslim-majority constituencies are down from 35 to 20, thousands of #Muslim homes demolished, and, as Sanskrita Bharadwaj reports, their desperation has become a central plank in the campaign
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“If we are Bangladeshis, why do they need our votes?”
In #Assam’s Goalpara, evicted #Muslim families still find parties at their doors seeking votes after their homes were bulldozed, reports Sanskrita Bharadwaj
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Disenfranchised in thousands across #Assam, but not everywhere: in Goalpara, evicted #Muslim families living on sandbars told Sanskrita Bharadwaj they remain voters—and are being courted by an ally of #BJP, whose govt demolished their homes
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As Assam goes to the polls tomorrow, thousands of evicted #Muslims have been struck off rolls or marked ‘D’ voters—yet Sanskrita Bharadwaj found many still on voter lists, with a #BJP ally seeking their votes after their homes were demolished
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“When the duo was finally produced before the local judicial magistrate (who resides in a first-floor flat) , he ordered remand from his balcony, without even seeing the two ‘accused’ who were held at the gate outside in blood-soaked clothes”
6 yrs ago
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With #WestBengal's electoral rolls days from finalisation, 2 million voters are blocked—in unprecedented fashion—from voting because the #SupremeCourt has allowed the chaotic revision to continue beyond voting day. Kavitha Iyer reports
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After an unprecedented judicial steering of an electoral roll revision, the Constitutional guarantee of every citizen’s right to vote at every election, unless disqualified by law, is deferred for 2 million in #WestBengal, writes Kavitha Iyer
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A chaotic revision of electoral rolls placed 6 million electors under scrutiny in #WestBengal. 45% of these, rejected in adjudication, will approach appellate tribunals—too late for most of them to vote, writes Kavitha Iyer
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Days before the deadline to finalise electoral rolls for #WestBengal assembly elections on 23 & 29 April 2026, the #SupremeCourt has allowed ECI to stop 2 million people from casting their vote, putting on hold a Constitutional right, writes Kavitha Iyer
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“They beat us up. They shot us. One of us died”
Ahmer Khan and Tom Vaillant's multimedia story on how thousands of Muslim homes in #Assam have been razed, families devastated, lives upended
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"But we are not Bangladeshis. Our ancestors are from here. How do we go back to a place we have never known?”
Ahmer Khan and Tom Vaillant's multimedia story on how thousands of Muslim homes in #Assam have been razed, lives upended
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“My father & grandfather lived here"
"The govt refuses to follow the Constitution"
“No place for Muslims here”
Ahmer Khan & Tom Vaillant’s multimedia story on how thousands of Muslim homes in #Assam have been razed, families devastated, lives upended
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“The police told us to ‘go back to Bangladesh’. How do we go to a place we have never known?”
With #AssamPolls this week, Ahmer Khan and Tom Vaillant's multimedia story on how 1000s of Muslim homes in #Assam have been razed despite NRC docs/valid voter ID
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"At 5 a.m., 3 JCBs tore down our home. Now we have nothing"
Despite holding land titles, her house was demolished.
With #Assampolls this week, Ahmer Khan and Tom Vaillant
in this multimedia story report how thousands of homes in #Assam were razed
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The right to vote exists in principle. But for many in #WestBengal this election, it may not exist in practice. Kavitha Iyer writes on the lack of due process; exclusion, particularly of #Muslims; and the risks from a judicialised election machinery.
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Days before voter lists close in W Bengal, lakhs are uncertain of their eligibility; appellate tribunals are not yet operational. An unprecedented judicial steering of an electoral exercise has not protected Constitutional guarantees, writes Kavitha Iyer
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The perceived legitimacy of the electoral process depends not just on its legal robustness but also on public trust in its fairness. The latter is now dangerously thin in #WestBengal, writes Kavitha Iyer. Subscribe to read our edit notes: article-14.com/subscribe
The right to vote exists in principle. But for many in #WestBengal this election, it may not exist in practice. Kavitha Iyer writes on the lack of due process; exclusion, particularly of #Muslims; and the risks from a judicialised election machinery.
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Days before voter lists close in W Bengal, lakhs are uncertain of their eligibility; appellate tribunals are not yet operational. An unprecedented judicial steering of an electoral exercise has not protected Constitutional guarantees, writes Kavitha Iyer
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A housing market where religion decides access—and price.
Ahmedabad’s Muslims pay more to live apart, in a system where exclusion drives inflation & restricts mobility, writes Sabah Gurmat
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Villas worth Rs 3–5 crore
Gated enclaves
Landscaped compounds
Sabah Gurmat explores segregation that confines #Muslims to an #Ahmedabad ‘ghetto’, where money can buy exclusive housing but not the ability to leave it
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Maharashtra’s new anti-conversion law was publicly opposed by dozens of civil society groups. But #Hindu outfits organised rallies, protests filled with Islamophobic hate speech, tracked social media & courts to break up interfaith couples. Kunal Purohit reports
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“I can send my daughters abroad, but we can’t move to a posh society in Ahmedabad”
In a neighbourhood derogatorily called “mini Pakistan”, wealth cannot buy mobility—only costlier segregation, writes Sabah Gurmat
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Maharashtra minister Nitesh Rane has often insinuated an #Islamic conspiracy to lure #Hindu women into marriage & lead a successful #Hindutva campaign for the state’s new anti-conversion law. It hasn’t mattered that he presented no evidence to back his claims.
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Since 2022, #Maharashtra’s #Hindu outfits held protests, rallies, thronged police stations, tracked interfaith couple—pressurising #Maharashtra govt to pass a law against ‘love jihad’, despite little evidence. Kunal Purohit investigates the modus operandi of the mobs
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