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For me, it had almost become a ritual. In each of the past three Bihar assembly elections, before setting out for the state, I would make it a point to meet Sankarshan Thakur once. First at the PTI building, later at the INS building in the national capital.

Journalists across India expressed shock and grief on Monday at the death of Sankarshan Thakur, editor of The Telegraph, acclaimed political author, and one of the country’s most respected ground reporters.

In an interview with Sreenivasan Jain, senior BJP leader and Bihar MP Rajiv Pratap Rudy addresses the controversy over the Election Commission’s deletions of 65 lakh names from Bihar’s electoral rolls, which the opposition calls “vote chori.” He defended the Prime Minister’s claims of a surge of infiltrators into Bihar…

This week, host Basant Kumar is joined by Newslaundry’s Sumedha Mittal and Pratyush Deep.

There are 1,069 voters in a polling booth in Rahijagatpur village, Bihar’s Madhepura district. Each of them is listed under a single house. The voters may be real; the house is not.

The Chief Election Commissioner, Gyanesh Kumar, probably expected that his August 18 press conference would settle the controversy surrounding the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls in Bihar and Rahul Gandhi’s “vote chori” charge. He was wrong. This is a story that has refused to die, notwithstanding Trump’s tariffs, or…

The Election Commission of India, long regarded as the impartial guardian of the world's largest democracy, is facing unprecedented scrutiny over its credibility and independence.

As 6.5 million Indian voters go ‘missing’ from the electoral database, opposition leader Rahul Gandhi accuses prime minister Narendra Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party of rigging polls in India, Arpan Rai reports

The credibility of India’s electoral process hinges on the credibility of its voter rolls. The Election Commission of India’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in Bihar — an exercise to verify the eligibility of 79 million voters — was meant to ensure this accuracy. It has fallen short.  

In this episode of South Central, hosts Dhanya Rajendran, Pooja Prasanna, and Leena Reghunath first discuss the ‘vote chori’ press conference by the Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, issuing a seven-day ultimatum to Rahul Gandhi and anyone else casting doubts on the election process. Senior investigative journalist and Executive Editor…

The final week of the Monsoon Session was as chaotic as its beginning. Opposition MPs continued protests over alleged ‘vote chori’ and Bihar’s special intensive revision until the last day. The session, which ran from July 21 to August 21, lasted 32 days with 18 sittings. Against the scheduled 120…