AFTER over 12 years of BJP rule, minorities in India — particularly its Muslims — face fascist thuggery at the hands of Hindutva zealots, while the state, too, is deploying legal instruments to disenfranchise them. The latest in a series of deplorable events is the mass voter purge in various Indian states before local elections. Three UN special rapporteurs have raised the issue with New Delhi, asking it to probe claims that up to 52m voters have been arbitrarily deleted from the rolls. They had........

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