India has deleted an estimated 130 million names from its voter rolls during a revision that began last June, a scale of elimination that elections specialists and critics describe as the largest disenfranchisement exercise in human history. The figure, cited by both the opposition and the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, has ignited a bitter dispute over whether the process is a routine cleanup or a politically motivated purge of communities that lean against Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government.
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Bharatiya Janata Party
Indian political party