India, July 7 -- Nitish Kumar may soon realise the cost of selling his soul to Narendra Modi. What began as a tactical alliance has now placed Bihar's longest-serving chief minister on a sinking raft in a river of possible betrayal. As the Election Commission rolls out its shockingly aggressive voter list revision just months before the Assembly elections, one thing is clear: the BJP isn't just contesting this election - it's rigging it in plain sight.

A special intensive revision of electoral rolls should have been a methodical, long-term administrative process. Instead, it's being rammed through in 30 days of chaos, monsoon, and migration. The target? An invisible but unmistakable underclass - Dalits, backward castes, Muslims, migrant ...