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  Video: The Friendship Files - How Modi and Adani Stole India | Shadow Citizens

  9 October

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  Joint Statement by Left Parties on restrictions to prevent the October 10 mobilisation over fixing of electoral rolls & accountability of Election Commission

  9 October

  JOINT STATEMENT BY LEFT PARTIES
  October 9, 2026
  Right to Assemble & Protest A Fundamental Right
  We strongly condemn the extraordinary restrictions imposed by the Delhi Police under the directions of the Union Home Minister to prevent and curb the October 10 mobilisation against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls and the functioning of the Election Commission of India (ECI). The denial of permission for the proposed demonstration, extensive barricading, (…)

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  CPI Statement on Repression Unleashed by the Modi Government to Prevent Peaceful Agitation - Oct 9, 2026

  9 October

  Communist Party of India
  October 9, 2026
  Press Release
  The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India issued the following statement today (October 9, 2026):
  The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India has strongly condemned the repressive tactics of the BJP government to crush the democratic rights of people to protest.
  CJP and all Left student youth organisations have declared that they will have peaceful demonstrations at Jantar Mantar in Delhi to demand (…)

• Uttar Pradesh Police fast losing its Credibility | Sandeep Pandey and Shashank Singh

  9 October, by Sandeep Pandey

  On 7 October, 2026, a bench of Justice Atul Sreedharan and Justice Achal Sachdev of Allahabad High Court remarked that police’s condition in Uttar Pradesh is a mess and that the officers think they can do anything and get away with it. Hearing the habeas corpus petition of one Deepak, the Court told the Assistant Commissioner of Police, Gautam Buddha Nagar and Station House Officer that they should be ashamed of having issued a notice to the accused under section 130 of Bhartiya Nagrik (…)

• Societal collapse of sense making | Sunil Ray

  9 October, by Sunil Ray

  Is it that the CJP movement that erupted across India in mid-2026 is testament of the societal collapse of sense making that mirrors death of aspiration? Vervaeke, a noted cognitive scientist and a psychologist, calls it a crisis of meaning at the macro level or existential exhaustion (Vervaeke, 2019, Flipo, F and Schneider, F, ( 2015), This, as one learns from history, emerges when the development and institutional order loses its capacity to connect peoples’ lived experiences with the (…)

• Subversion of Credibility of the Election Commission of India | Arup Kumar Sen

  8 October, by Arup Kumar Sen

  A report carried in The Indian Express on September 23, 2026, has completely shattered public confidence in the mode of operations of the Election Commission of India. To put it in the words of the report: “The Election Commission of India’s (ECI) Special Intensive Revision (SIR), which began in Bihar in June 2025, an otherwise routine clean-up of the rolls, has struck more than 13 crore names off the draft voter rolls in 30 States and Union Territories. This has put the Commission at the (…)

• Jantar Mantar !! | Radhakanta Barik

  8 October, by Radhakanta Barik

  Modi has turned into social phenomenon where some living actors and non living actors work to sustain the phenomenon. Living actors like CBI chief ED chief, Police chief and EC chief. All these establish relationships to sustain such a phenomenon of Moditva. CBI chief faced mid night coup when his words did not work and he wanted to look into the file related to Air Force planes imported from France where a large scale corruption has got involved. In the mid night coup he was removed with (…)

• The CJP Phenomenon: Tracing The Trajectory and Mapping The Impacts | Sukla Sen

  8 October, by Sukla Sen

  ​Prologue
  ​Conservative British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan is said to have been once asked what he feared most and to have tersely replied: "Events, dear boy, events." This famous story, accurate or not, vividly brings out a very significant side of the way political developments take place. Even the best-laid plans of the mighty may, all of a sudden, get severely upset by the unscripted.
  ​Since the May 2014 mandate that brought the BJP to power, the new regime, all the (…)

• SIR Vote Chori: After three decades of voting, I went off the voter rolls! | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  8 October, by M R Narayan Swamy

  I did entertain some serious doubts about the efficacy of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of India’s electoral rolls when it began in Bihar. But I surmised, naively I now realise, that it would mostly affect the mass of poor who travel long distances for work and so would be “absent” when officials visit their homes.
  This was until I began following news reports of mass purges from voters’ lists in state after state. The ugly truth hit home hard when my own name disappeared from (…)

• With BJP backing and apex court nod Gyanesh Kumar will brazen it out | Faraz Ahmad

  8 October, by Faraz Ahmad

  It is now established beyond doubt that Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar’s act of depriving 13 crores Indian voters of their right to vote, simply to ensure a BJP government in state after state, was unilateral, patently illegal and unconstitutional because many of the decisions pertaining to the exercise of the Special Intensive Review (SIR), starting from Bihar to West Bengal to the rest of the country, lacked the necessary consent of the two other Election Commissioners, (…)