Why India's tens of millions of voter deletions have led to widespread protests

India’s verification exercise of its nearly one billion voters has sparked protests across the country, with opposition parties alleging that the removal of 130 million names from electoral rolls has unfairly benefited Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party. Opposition parties and the youth-led Cockroach Janta Party are demanding the ouster of Election Commission chief Gyanesh Kumar and have vowed a huge protest ​in the capital, Delhi, on Saturday. Election Commission data cited by Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party shows about 130 million names, more than the population of Japan, have been deleted…