Justice Bhuyan: ‘Mass voter exclusion would negate constitutional order’

Supreme Court judge Justice Ujjal Bhuyan on Sunday (October 4, 2026) said any process disenfranchising millions, making them second class citizens without the right to vote, was intrinsically arbitrary, and violative of universal adult suffrage and right to equality.

Speaking at NALSAR, Hyderabad, Justice Bhuyan said no amount of whataboutery could justify the exclusion of voters en masse from the electoral rolls as such an action was fatal to the Constitution.