“Highly Suspicious” Vote Theft: From Electoral Rolls to the DHFL CIRP
This exposé examines the converging crises of electoral integrity and financial justice in contemporary India, highlighting systemic capture by political, corporate, and institutional actors. It traces large-scale voter-roll manipulations—exacerbated under the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of 2025—and parallels them with opaque corporate insolvency resolutions, particularly the DHFL–Piramal case, to reveal a unified architecture of dispossession. Both domains exhibit technocratic opacity, concentrated discretionary authority, elite appropriation, and juridical complicity, resulting in the systematic disenfranchisement of marginalized voters and the financial expropriation of small depositors. Independent investigations, RTI filings, and media reporting document repeated patterns of procedural evasion, selective inclusion, and institutional passivity, demonstrating that these are not isolated incidents but interlinked mechanisms reinforcing crony-authoritarian consolidation. The report maps the roles of the BJP, corporate beneficiaries, judiciary, regulators, and auditors, showing how bureaucratic fragmentation and doctrinal deference transform public institutions into instruments of private gain. It further underscores the hollowing out of transparency, the weaponization of data, and the deliberate weakening of civic oversight, arguing that both democratic participation and fiduciary fairness have been subordinated to elite advantage. Concluding with actionable recommendations, the exposé advocates for machine-readable disclosure, judicial enforcement of equitable restitution, audit-grade transparency in corporate resolutions, curbs on opaque political funding, and independent civic verification, framing these measures as essential to restore accountability, defend the rule of law, and safeguard the participatory foundations of Indian democracy.
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