India’s Democracy and the Migrant Citizen Crisis:
Nearly 3.5 million voters (4.4% of Bihar’s electorate), mostly migrants, have been deleted from electoral rolls during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), raising concerns of systemic migrant disenfranchisement ahead of elections.Migrant Disfranchisement refers to the exclusion of migrant workers from exercising their right to vote either in their home states or at their destination states.Migrants often fall into a “political limbo”: not registered at destination, and deleted at origin due to absence during verification.
