印度选民名单删逾1.3亿名字引爆抗议：反对党游行至最高法院，周末数千人被拘后首都封控第三天
新德里——印度一场围绕选民名单的争议，正在演变成莫迪政府近年面对的最大规模街头挑战之一。10月12日（周一），印度反对党议员与数千名支持者游行至最高法院，向首席大法官递交请愿书，指控全国选民名单修订存在违规，要求首席选举专员库马尔（Gyanesh Kumar）辞职。
争议的源头是规模：选举当局自去年启动全国选民名单修订以来，已从名单上删除超过1.3亿个名字。抗议由名为「蟑螂」（Cockroach）的青年运动带头推动，反对党随后加入。批评者认为，修订带有政治动机，可能让大量合格选民失去投票权；莫迪领导的印度人民党与选举委员会则否认操纵指控，称修订是为了清除重复与不合格的名字。总理莫迪本人尚未公开评论抗议，其政党领袖则斥抗议者为「无政府主义者」。
周一游行之前，是一个被大规模拘留的周末。警方在周末的清场行动中短暂拘留了数千人，包括该青年运动的领袖与多名记者，首都中部大片区域一度实质封控；周一当局又关闭了六座地铁站并预警交通中断。国大党领袖拉胡尔·甘地（Rahul Gandhi）把这场抗争定性为捍卫宪法之战，他在新德里对记者表示不会退让，并一度站在敞篷巴士上向人群挥舞一本印度宪法。半岛电视台10月13日的续报称，在抗议现场采访的数十名记者被拘，市中心安保封控进入第三天。
这场争议的分量在于选举的公信力本身：1.3亿这个数字，相当于印度每七名选民中就有一人的名字被动过。最高法院接下来是否受理请愿、是否叫停或审查修订程序，将决定这场街头抗争是走向司法程序，还是继续在首都街头升级。GSM将持续跟进法院的回应。
India's Opposition Marches to Supreme Court Over Voter-Roll Purge as Protests Escalate After Mass Detentions
New Delhi — A dispute over India's voter rolls is turning into one of the largest street challenges the Modi government has faced in years. On Monday, October 12, opposition lawmakers and thousands of supporters marched to the Supreme Court and submitted a petition to the Chief Justice, alleging irregularities in the nationwide voter-roll revision and demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.
The source of the dispute is scale: since election authorities began the nationwide revision last year, more than 130 million names have been deleted from the rolls. The protests were first driven by a youth movement called 'Cockroach,' with opposition parties joining later. Critics say the revision is politically motivated and could strip large numbers of eligible voters of their right to vote; Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party and the Election Commission deny the manipulation allegations, saying the revision is meant to remove duplicate and ineligible names. Modi himself has not publicly commented on the protests, while party leaders have branded the protesters 'anarchists.'
The march was preceded by a weekend of mass detentions. Police briefly detained thousands of people in weekend clearance operations, including leaders of the youth movement and several journalists, and much of central Delhi was effectively locked down; on Monday, authorities closed six metro stations and warned of traffic disruption. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi cast the fight as a battle to defend the Constitution, telling reporters in New Delhi that he would not back down, and at one point stood on an open-top bus waving a copy of the Indian Constitution at the crowd. Al Jazeera reported on October 13 that dozens of journalists covering the protests had been detained and that the security lockdown in the city center had entered its third day.
The weight of this dispute lies in the credibility of elections themselves: 130 million names amount to roughly one in every seven Indian voters. Whether the Supreme Court takes up the petition and halts or reviews the revision process will decide whether this confrontation moves into judicial channels or escalates further on the capital's streets. GSM will continue to follow the court's response.
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