On Systemic Erasure: From Electoral Rolls to the DHFL Resolution Process: A Letter to Ajay Piramal
This letter addresses the systemic erasure at the heart of both contemporary electoral disenfranchisement and the DHFL Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process, arguing that what appears as legal and administrative procedure is in fact a coordinated state–corporate apparatus of dispossession. Just as voters are made to vanish through calibrated electoral roll manipulation and bureaucratized opacity, depositors were erased from the DHFL resolution through committee intermediation, controlled documentation, engineered CoC voting, judicial sanction, and regulatory abdication. The RTI regime—designed as a transparency safeguard—functioned instead as a ritual of deferral, where responsibility was endlessly transferred across institutions to ensure that accountability remained structurally unreachable. The result is the same in both domains: those who constitute the basis of legitimacy—citizens as voters and as depositors—are stripped of presence, agency, and voice. This is a crisis not of procedure but of democratic integrity, where legality is weaponized to launder injustice and the polity is exhausted into silence. The letter refuses that silence.
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