Скачать или смотреть Migrant Dalits face exclusion in Bihar | Part 2 | On the Ground

In Seemanchal, Bihar’s poorest region, voters in nearly every village have lost their vote without any basis as part of the special intensive revision of voter lists. They are not dead, absent, enrolled in multiple places, nor have they migrated. And yet, the Election Commission’s hastily conducted exercise has cut them out of the democratic process right before the state elections.

In Bajraha village in Dhamdaha constituency, the revision cut out 408 voters from it – a deletion rate of 33%. These include many young men from the village’s Musahar hamlet, a settlement of Dalits, who have lost their vote because they are working in Punjab and could not send their paperwork in time.

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