This week on TV Newsance, the streets of Delhi and Mumbai were louder than any prime-time debate. The Cockroach Janta Party’s big contribution to the movement against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar was “Gyanesh, it’s done bro.” Meanwhile, Delhi University’s women, out on the streets for women's safety, dropped rhymes that made the men’s slogans look like a draft. Poetry round: Women, 1. Boys, 0.
So what lit the match? The Indian Express got hold of the Election Commission’s internal file notings, and they show that the other two commissioners were deeply uncomfortable with how the voter-roll revamp, or SIR, was being run. Two things from those notings remain unexplained:
