Umang Poddar of Hindi reports on people caught in a legal quagmire.
Laxmi Das, 47, felt bad as she watched many of her neighbours in Assam’s Silchar city vote in the second phase of the Indian general election in April.
“The entire country participates in the general election but I can’t,” she states.
Ms Das is one of the state’s 97,000 odd voters who have a “D” or “doubtful” next to their name and are unable to vote since their Indian citizenship is in question.
Known as the D-voters list, the notion is peculiar to Assam, where immigration and citizenship.
