The selective solidarity at the heart of India’s voter protests

Throughout India, opposition parties, students and farmers are protesting against a sweeping revision of electoral rolls that has removed some 130 million names.

What happened

Six years ago, Muslims took to the streets to warn that making citizenship dependent on such paperwork could leave millions vulnerable to exclusion, particularly Muslims. Their warnings were largely ignored. Now that the threat of exclusion extends beyond Muslims, plenty of who ignored their warnings are taking to the streets themselves.

The bottom line

For now, the selective solidarity at the heart of India's voter protests remains the part of the story worth watching, and further updates are likely as more details are confirmed.