Manipur aberration: EC has ensured that booth capturing has become rare

Senakeithei village in Manipur’s Ukhrul district was the scene of a phenomenon that has long faded from Indian elections — booth capturing. A faction of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland frightened and forced people to stay home unless they voted for the Naga People’s Front. Citizens were resigned, election officers had been coopted, the CRPF looked away saying that only security — as in, violence — was their remit, and determined miscreants registered multiple votes under various names...

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