{
  "id": 15847469,
  "title": "India’s voter roll overhaul fuels citizenship fears: ‘what if they ask us to leave?’",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/21/indias-voter-roll-overhaul-fuels-citizenship-fears-what-if-they-ask",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-21T04:46:08.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "South China Morning Post",
    "slug": "south-china-morning-post",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/south-asia/article/3371589/indias-voter-roll-overhaul-fuels-citizenship-fears-what-if-they-ask-us-leave"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Laddli Khatun pulled one document after another from a yellow bag, desperately hoping one would be enough to keep her name on India’s electoral rolls. As the world’s largest democracy overhauls its voter lists, millions like Khatun are scrambling to re-establish their credentials, despite having voted before. Critics and opposition parties say the exercise risks mass disenfranchisement, and those…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}