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Contest Even a Tilted Election: A Boycott Hands Over the Field

Shashi Tharoor, a fourth-term Congress MP from Thiruvananthapuram, has written in the Indian Express against calls within the Opposition to boycott elections. The calls arise from controversy over the Election Commission's Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls. Under that exercise, 13.39 crore voters were flagged in the Absent, Shifted, Dead or Duplicate category. The Opposition alleges mass disenfranchisement and…