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The writer is an author and a lawyer based in Mumbai. TWO events happened on April 12. The Election Commission of India took the drastic step of imposing a 24-hour ban on campaigning in the general elections to the assembly of West Bengal on the state’s chief minister, Mamata Banerjee. Her crime was that she had made “highly insinuating and provocative remarks” regarding the ECI and the central forces. The ECI’s indictment had another grave charge — namely, her appeal to minority voters not to divide their votes. In the parlance of Indian media and officialdom, ‘minority’ is a ...
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