I don’t think the elections themselves are rigged, but the current Chief Election Commissioner is adding / removing names in the voter list to help his friends.
In practice yes, but he does it legally. For example, he might say ‘in order for us to know you are an Indian citizen, you have to show us a birth certificate’. This sounds perfectly reasonable, but poor and less educated people are less likely to have a birth certificate, and also generally more likely to vote for opposition parties, so in practice it will preferentially exclude them. Now this is an extreme example and will get struck down by the courts, but there are all sorts of small ways in which he can make it slightly harder for certain sections of the population to vote.
I don’t think the elections themselves are rigged, but the current Chief Election Commissioner is adding / removing names in the voter list to help his friends.
That’s called rigging
In practice yes, but he does it legally. For example, he might say ‘in order for us to know you are an Indian citizen, you have to show us a birth certificate’. This sounds perfectly reasonable, but poor and less educated people are less likely to have a birth certificate, and also generally more likely to vote for opposition parties, so in practice it will preferentially exclude them. Now this is an extreme example and will get struck down by the courts, but there are all sorts of small ways in which he can make it slightly harder for certain sections of the population to vote.