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13/07/2025

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CPIML’s Dipankar Bhattacharya warns SIR of electoral rolls in Bihar threatens voter rights and may be replicated in Bengal to favour BJP

11/07/2025

Whose Is It Anyway? CPIML Fears Customised Voter Lists to Tilt 2026 Polls in BJP’s Favour

As Bihar protests intensify over the voter roll overhaul, alerts to prepare for similar tactics. Dipankar Bhattacharya calls a ‘votebandi’ campaign targeting the voiceless and the vulnerable. He warns that a manipulated revision could be used to tilt the 2026 assembly polls in ’s favour

CPIML’s Dipankar Bhattacharya warns SIR of electoral rolls in Bihar threatens voter rights and may be replicated in Bengal to favour BJP

11/07/2025

Dipankar Bhattacharya on in

11/07/2025

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CPIML's PC on SIR in Bengal
Dipankar Bhattacharya briefs the media on the election commission's intensive voter revision in forthcoming assembly polls.

11/07/2025

UN vs Superpowers: ’s Gaza Dossier That Angered West

UN Special Rapporteur’s dossier reveals the dark marriage of military violence and corporate greed. In trying to defend , she now finds herself in the crosshairs of global power

UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese’s Gaza report exposes corporate war profiteering, sparking backlash from superpowers

10/07/2025

Hindutva’s Long War Against Two Words in the Constitution: ‘Secular’ and ‘Socialist’

Ram Puniyani writes: leader Dattatray Hosabale’s remarks questioning the legitimacy of “ ” and “ ” values echo decades of Hindutva hostility to the . From Organiser editorials dismissing it as “un-Bhartiya” to Savarkar’s praise for Manu Smriti, the goal of a Hindu Rashtra has always clashed with constitutional ideals. Even as leaders publicly bow before ’s legacy, their long-term vision involves undermining the democratic, inclusive foundation he laid

RSS-BJP have long targeted words secularism and socialism in Constitution’s Preamble, calling them alien to India’s cultural ethos

07/07/2025

Protest Debate: Faith and the — A Contract, Not a Creed

https://enewsroom.in/waqf-act-protest-debate-faith-constitution-constitutional-rights/

07/07/2025

Waqf Protest Debate: Faith and the Constitution — A Contract, Not a Creed

Wali Rahmani writes: The protest was a gathering of faith and rights—an appeal to conscience, not a rebellion against the state. Yet it was met with suspicion cloaked in legal rhetoric, recast as a danger for daring to speak in a religious tongue. In turning a cry for justice into a threat to order, the critics do not guard the —they betray its soul, replacing pluralism with fear and silencing those who still believe that devotion and democracy can walk side by side

Waqf Act protest defended constitutional rights. Critics debate and miscast it as regressive— distorting pluralism & silencing faithful voices

06/07/2025

Between Hurt Sentiments and Constitutional Rights: A Muslim’s Plea


https://enewsroom.in/blasphemy-laws-and-secularism-constitution-constitutional-rights-muslims/

06/07/2025

Between Hurt Sentiments and Constitutional Rights: A Muslim’s Plea

As da’wah becomes equated with “hurting sentiments,” preachers are increasingly being arrested for peacefully proclaiming their faith. Anti-conversion laws and vague blasphemy-like provisions are criminalising monotheism and punishing religious expression—not actual hate speech. In today’s India, Preach , Go to Jail has become the new normal under laws that betray both and the Islamic spirit

Muslim preachers face arrest for da’wah under vague laws. As faith gets criminalised, secularism—not blasphemy laws—is Islam’s safeguard

05/07/2025

Bihar’s Unofficial ‘NRC’: How the Poor Are Being Erased from

https://enewsroom.in/bihar-assembly-election-special-intensive-revision-sir-voters/

05/07/2025

Bihar’s Unofficial ‘ ’: How the Poor Are Being Erased from

A flawed Special Intensive Revision (SIR) threatens to disenfranchise millions in , with a 10th-grade certificate becoming the de facto proof of identity. But with over half the women in Bihar still illiterate and nearly 63% of the population earning below Rs10,000 a month, the poorest are being pushed out of democracy. , , , and face the gravest risk of erasure from the voter rolls

A flawed voter revision in Bihar risks mass disenfranchisement, targeting the poor, illiterate, and migrants through a backdoor 'NRC'