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People have always responded peacefully to what they don’t like in democracies all over the world. About 9 million just did it in America. It’s a right enshrined in the constitutions of all democracies.

Analysis not bluster, lies and Whataboutery. Listen to a sane voice

Musings, 9 October 2026 Maharastra Voters List Mystery In all the milling around, here is a hilarious story. I know a person who got a notice from the dreaded BLO because his Father’s name was misspelt. He went and submitted the proof of his father’s correct name and as indeed proof that he was his father !! After 15 days got another notice. This time to the effect that the difference between his father and his age was 52 years !! Perplexed he went to the mighty BLO’s office again. He was shown the discrepancy. And lo and behold instead of his father’s name, the name of his grandfather was inserted in the list. And, the age difference with his grandfather, mentioned as his father in the electoral roll, was indeed 52 years !! The website would not correct this discrepancy. The friend was directed to swear an affidavit regarding the name of his father again and leave it with the BLO and to pray that it was accepted. That’s how, stubborn algorithms work. They ensure only Central deletion addition by the hand of God. This man I am talking about is an Indian citizen over many generations and certainly NOT among the favourite “ghuspaithiyas”. He grinds on. I next looked at the Maharastra Voter’s List pre and post Lok-Sabha and Pre-and post State Elections. Fascinating facts emerged. You have a look at the Electorate too at various times : 📍Pre Lok Sabha : 9,29 cr🔻 📍Electors Added :(+)40.81 lacs 📍Pre State Elections : 9,71 cr 🔻 📍Post SIR Net Deletions : (-)2.7 cr 📍Present Electorate : 7,71 cr 🔻 on 26 August Conclusion : A truly transformative Electoral Roll in Maharastra over a year, changed evey 5 months or so, with no explanations, for any to see. If you know, the Sir Exercise in the country is more like a “Game of Casino”. The house lets you win a few times to spur you on, but in the end the it wins 70% to 80 %. Does it ring a bell ? You would have heard of Match Fixing too. Not every ball is a No Ball and and not all catches are dropped. If Bihar had a net deletion of 65 lacs Maharastra or Bengal should have taken in atleast 30 % each of the Bhaiyas who presumably moved out of Bihar for work !! How stupid, folks, do you think the people in Maharastra and that too in the land of Shivaji and Jyotiba Phule !!

Uncle Don treats Indian “Immigrants” as a threat. What’s the Hindi equivalent for immigrants !!

Pranob Roy’s name has been struck out as havectge names of 3.3 cr Indians. I got struck out too but perhaps have fought my way back. Fingers crossed

“In the long run, we are all dead” said by John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946), the renowned British economist. Keynes was criticising economists who focused on long-term equilibrium while ignoring the urgent economic problems and human suffering of the present. His point was that long-term solutions are of little comfort to people facing crises today. The quotation has since become one of the most famous expressions in economics, often used more broadly to remind us that the present matters, because life is finite. Let’s plan for today and not wait for two more decades for the miracle to happen !!

Well said. Apt for the times, Humna

I looked into the raw statistics of the Bengal Electoral Rolls, post and pre SIR rollout 📍Pre-SIR Electors : 7.66 crore 📍Initial SIR Deletions : 63.66 lakh 📍Put under Adjudication:60.06 lakh 📍Post Judicial adjudication: 🔻Deletions : 27.16 lakh 🔻Retained : 32.68 lakh. ❌The gross deletions in Bengal: ❌90.83 lakh !! 📍This is a deletion of 11.9% of the pre-SIR roll. 📍Present electorate: roughly 6.77 crore I have a feeling that none of the Bengal greats like Gurudev and Netaji would have supported this suspension of voting rights and subsequently the citizenship of Indians. How can you disenfranchise 91 lakh people in one state ? This is specially serious as it would amount to stripping them of their citizenship too !! The implications of this will be stark and disproportionately t affect those on the fringes.

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How Bihar was SIRified •Pre-SIR Voters (24 June 2025): 7.89 crore •Draft roll (1 Aug 2025): 7.24 crore, after about 65 lakh names were removed as absent, shifted (or dead) ! Not added any where else. •Final roll (30 Sept 2025): 7.42 crore. 21.53 lakh names were added, mostly first-time voters, and a further 3.66 lakh were removed as ineligible. •Net drop: about 47 lakh. Counting every deletion (65 lakh plus 3.66 lakh), the gross deletion figure, pre poll in Bihar is about 68.7 lakh voters !! Do you think this was a legal election in Bihar having stripped 68.7 lakh voters ? JP, if he was alive would certainly not be happy at this turn of events.