‘What MAGA really cares about…’: Ishaan Tharoor jibe at Trump’s India voter ID pitch
Ishaan Tharoor was responding to a post by Donald Trump, in which he shared details of a conversation his administration had with CEC Gyanesh Kumar.
American journalist Ishaan Tharoor took issue with President Donald Trump's comparison of the US voter identification system to India's, stating that while obtaining a voter ID in India is relatively easy, the MAGA movement's real concern lies in the government's ability to remove millions of people from electoral rolls. Tharoor responded to Trump's claim, made on Truth Social, that India's last election had 646 million voters and every voter had a "VALID Photo Identity Document".
He pointed out that despite India's complexity, it's easier for an average Indian to get a photo ID than many Americans in some states. Tharoor emphasized that what India demonstrated was not effective voter ID systems, but the government's capability to strip large numbers of people from voter rolls under bureaucratic reasons. This information emerged after a meeting between Indian Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and US Ambassador to India Sergio Gor, where both agreed to collaborate on election management and staff training.
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