INDIAN EXPRESS DATED 14th APRIL 2026

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INDIAN EXPRESS DATED 14th APRIL 2026.

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1.     Supreme Court scrutiny of Bengal’s SIR underscores the democratic cost of exclusion

The most significant political-constitutional development is the Supreme Court’s sharp concern over voter deletions in West Bengal under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR). The Bench noted that if a winning margin in a constituency is 2% but deletions affect 15% of the electorate, the impact on democratic legitimacy becomes serious. The logic of the court’s intervention is not merely procedural fairness but protection of the substantive right to vote, which it describ