Voter poll purge ignites march on India's Supreme Court
by editors@theworld.org (Joshua Coe) from The World: Latest Stories on (#790K7)
Thousands of people marched through New Delhi Monday toward India's Supreme Court, where opposition leaders sought to challenge a sweeping revision of the country's voter registration lists. More than 130 million names have been removed from those voter lists, which opposition politicians and civil society leaders have called into question as tampering by the ruling party's government. The World's Host Marco Werman speaks with Mukulika Banerjee, a social anthropologist at the London School of Economics who researches India's democracy.