Listen to this article:

West Bengal is due to vote for a new Assembly on April 23 and 29.

The voter lists stands finalised – with one mortal glitch: for the first time in the electoral history of the republic, an Indian’s fundamental right to exercise franchise will, in all likelihood, stand forfeited because of an institutional failure to complete Constitutional due process in stipulated time,

In West Bengal, some 27 lakh residents as of the day remain excluded from the voter list which has come to be foreclosed before inhabitants have had the statutory opportunity to plead their case to a tribunal stipulated by the Supreme Court of India.

To remind ourselves: the Constitution which........

© The Wire