“Highly Suspicious” Vote Theft: From Electoral Rolls to the DHFL CIRP
“Highly Suspicious” Vote Theft: From Electoral Rolls to the DHFL CIRP Posted on 4th November, 2025 (GMT 04:50 hrs) ABSTRACT This exposé examines the converging crises of electoral integrity and financial justice in contemporary India, highlighting systemic capture by political, corporate, and institutional actors. It traces large-scale voter-roll manipulations—exacerbated under the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of 2025—and parallels them with opaque corporate insolvency resolutions, particularly the DHFL–Piramal case, to reveal a unified architecture of dispossession. Both domains exhibit technocratic opacity, concentrated discretionary authority, elite appropriation, and juridical complicity, resulting in the systematic disenfranchisement of marginalized voters and the financial expropriation of small depositors. Independent investigations, RTI filings, and media reporting document repeated patterns of procedural evasion, selective inclusion, and instituti...