# The selective solidarity at the heart of India’s voter protests

https://mins.news/en/item/123470

- Al Jazeera, 2026-10-31 06:08 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/10/31/the-selective-solidarity-at-the-heart-of-indias-voter-protests?traffic_source=rss

> Opposition parties, students and farmers are protesting a voter-roll revision that removed about 130 million names, demanding the old lists be restored and Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar resign. The article argues that the opposition has not confronted the discrimination Muslims warned about in 2019 or challenged the citizenship law they protested.

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