01169nam a22001457a 4500999001900000008004100019100004500060245007700105260003400182300003300216520062500249773003400874942000700908952010800915  c533721d533721260612b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aDebnath, Avijit and Paul, Shanku 961227  aWhen citizens move: Migration and the perils of electoral roll revisions  aEconomic & Political Weekly    a61(19), May 9, 2026: p.86-90  aBihar’s Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls, which flagged nearly 60 lakh names for deletion, poses a serious threat to internal migrants. This article argues that the SIR is not merely an administrative clean-up but functions as an effective citizenship test—an “NRC by proxy”—that shifts the burden of proof onto voters and penalises mobility. By turning administrative absence into political exclusion, it risks disenfranchising migrant workers and calls for rethinking electoral citizenship to ensure inclusion.- Reproduced 

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