A serious factor that can no longer be overlooked!

India's boundary with our immediate neighbours was always porous. Governments came and went, both at the centre and in the states. Migrants from neighbouring countries came in, wave after wave and no one seemed to care. The demography of the populations within changed drastically. The Rohingyas, the Bangladeshis, the Pakistanis, the Sri Lankan Tamilians came in on their free will and established themselves; almost all of them as Indian citizens!

They've been nurtured by various political parties as their 'vote banks'! This needed to be brought to a halt.

The Modi government brought in the the CAA (Citizenship Amendment Act) and the revision of the NRC (National Registry of Citizenship). The vested interests got into the act to prevent their effective enforcement - Shaheen Bagh type agitation and the Delhi riots played out their bit. In the end, Indian Democracy won.

The first comprehensive action by the central government was through the formulation of the SIR (Special Intensive Revision) in Assembly-poll-bound state of Bihar. The ECI (Election Commission of India) through the SIR - the opposition tried their hand at roping in the Supreme Court to thwart the efforts of the SIR which fell flat - made a mockery of the summary revision  of the poll rolls of Bihar published in January, this year.

The disclosure is alarming :-

    * Over 65.2 lakh names are out of Bihar poll roll. The breakdown is as follows :-

        Total number of registered voters              7.9 cr

        Dead                                                           22 lakhs

        Permanently migrated                                35 lakhs

        Registered at more than one place               7 lakhs

        Untraceable                                                  1.2 lakhs

The opposition, caught on the wrong foot, is now threatening to boycott the Assembly elections! The next target of the ECI is the u/t of Jammu and Kashmir followed by West Bengal. In the latter, left as it is, the goons of Mamata Banerjee will not allow it to happen for obvious reasons. The central government will have to deploy central security forces or clamp President's Rule in the state.

My take

What a monumental lie was being propagated thus far?! And mind you, all these illegal migrants, have managed to acquire Aadhaar Cards, Voter's ID Card through the connivance of their patrons.

Corrective action must be applied forthwith. If the collective opposition decides to boycott elections then let Nitish Kumar come back to power!

And what's the backdrop of the ADR (Association for Democratic Reforms)? Well, it's the usual naysayers within this country, funded and aided by the virulently anti-Modi/pro RaGa, Sorros!!

Tailpiece.

It's the 26th anniversary of the Kargil Vijay Diwas!

A thoroughly wet day, in fact, Thrissur is on Red Alert!