Electoral rolls and voting rights: it’s time for India to revisit its founding debates and the ECI’s evolution
India’s first election, held between October 1951 and February 1952, managed to enrol 173 million voters, a stupendous task. The ECI since then, under the leadership of various commissioners, has been in mission mode to ensure maximum participation in various elections and the number of registered voters reached 970 million by the 2024 general elections.
