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New Delhi: The Editors Guild of India (EGI) has condemned the deletion of the name of R. Rajagopal, former editor of The Telegraph from the electoral rolls and the subsequent non-renewal of his passport by authorities.

In a statement issued on Sunday (June 28), the EGI demanded that Rajagopal’s identity as a voter be restored at the earliest.

“The Editors Guild of India condemns the manner in which Mr R. Rajagopal, a former Editor of The Telegraph, a leading Kolkata-based daily, is being treated by the bureaucracy that gets to decide who is an Indian citizen and who is not,” said the EGI statement issued by its president Sanjay Kapoor, general secretary Raghavan Srinivasan and treasurer........

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