Editors Guild condemns denial of passport, voting right to former ‘The Telegraph’ editor
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The Editors Guild of India on Sunday condemned the manner in which R Rajagopal, a former editor of The Telegraph, was “being treated by the bureaucracy that gets to decide who is an Indian citizen and who is not”.
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On Saturday, Rajagopal said that he had been removed as a voter in West Bengal during the special intensive revision of electoral rolls in March, apparently because his and his father’s names could not be traced in the 2002 voters’ list.
Rajagopal said that his name had been excluded by the Election Commission citing “logical discrepancies”, which refers to situations such as a mismatch in parents’ names, low age gap with parents and the number of children of the parents being more than six.
Statement on the Denial of Electoral and Passport Rights to R. Rajagopal pic.twitter.com/xa4kJij9Tw
— Editors Guild of India (@IndEditorsGuild) June 28, 2026
He said that he had been facing problems while renewing his passport. While his biometric formalities had been completed on March 19, his application was not cleared at the police verification stage because his name no longer appears in the voter list.
Rajagopal, the editor of The Telegraph between 2016 and 2023, said that he was informed that the alternative documents he had submitted were insufficient.
“For all practical purposes, I find myself in a state of...