In this week's South Central, hosts Dhanya Rajendran and Pooja Prasanna first discuss senior journalist R Rajagopal’s letter regarding the removal of his name from the electoral rolls, denying him renewal of his passport. The hosts are joined by R Rajagopal himself and Shivasundar, a senior activist and researcher who has been studying the election process.
“I could not find my own name in the 2002 electoral rolls. I was not surprised, because it was a period of moving and we decided to be in West Bengal only later. But my father’s case is really surprising. Even my wife’s mother was in West Bengal. So it is intriguing why the names were removed from the state’s electoral rolls,” Rajagopal explains.
