Supreme Court judge Justice Ujjal Bhuyan on Sunday (October 4, 2026) said any process disenfranchising millions, making them second class citizens without the right to vote, was intrinsically arbitrary, and violative of universal adult suffrage and right to equality.
On Sunday (October 4, 2026), Justice Bhuyan said the Constitution did not provide for two classes of citizens – those with voting rights and citizens without voting rights Protest against CEC Gyanesh Kumar live updates “Any process which leads to wholesale disenfranchisement of Indian citizens making them citizens without voting rights would be violative of Articles 326 (adult suffrage) and 14 (right to equalty) of the Constitution, if any process results in disenfranchising millions and millions of Indian citizens making them second class citizens in their own country in the sense of being citizens without voting rights, such a process is intrinsically arbitrary. They had only accounted for about 14% of the entire population. No amount of whataboutery can justify it. “No authority can do it; no court can condone it. No one is above the Constitution. People of ‘Part A’ States were allowed to vote on the basis of their qualifications, which included residence, taxation, property, literacy, community, marital status (for women), etc.
It strikes at the very heart of the Constitution” Justice Bhuyan said. Indian citizens’ right to vote is intertwined with India’s long years of struggle for freedom,” he said. He referred to how the Government of India Act of 1935 had dictated “partial franchise” to the Indian subjects of the British crown.
