新德里——印度反对党加大了对该国首席选举专员吉亚内什·库马尔的施压，要求其就涉嫌在选举名册重大修订过程中操纵选民名单一事辞职。反对党称，这些变更以有利于总理纳伦德拉·莫迪领导的执政党的方式，将约1.3亿人排除在外。
NEW DELHI -- India's opposition parties have stepped up their demands that the country's chief election commissioner, Gyanesh Kumar, resign over alleged manipulation of voter lists during a major revision of the country's electoral rolls. Those changes allegedly excluded about 130 million people in a manner that the opposition says favors the ruling party led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
在反对党联盟周三举行了一场持续约三个半小时的会议后，印度主要反对党印度国民大会党（国大党）主席马利卡尔朱恩·卡尔吉称，由库马尔领导的印度选举委员会是莫迪及其亲密助手、内政部长阿米特·沙的“傀儡”。
After an alliance of opposition parties held a meeting lasting about three and a half hours on Wednesday, Mallikarjun Kharge, president of the country's main opposition party, the Indian National Congress (INC), called the Election Commission of India, headed by Kumar, "a puppet" of Modi and his close aide, Home Minister Amit Shah.
自去年六月启动名为“特别强化修订”（SIR）的选民名册审查以来，库马尔一直面临反对党的批评。据当地媒体报道，这一常规程序迄今已导致约1.3亿人从选民名册草案中被移除。选举委员会表示，被排除的选民在提供部分个人信息后，可以重新加入选民名册。
Kumar has faced opposition criticism since the review of voter rolls, an otherwise routine process, began in June last year under an exercise called Special Intensive Revision (SIR) According to local media, this has so far led to the removal of about 130 million people from draft voter lists. Excluded voters can rejoin the electoral roll after providing some personal details, according to the commission.
国大党及其他反对党指控，选民名册正被操纵以偏袒莫迪领导的印度人民党（BJP）。国大党周二要求恢复那些名字已被移除的选民资格。莫迪政府、印度人民党及选举委员会均否认了反对党的指控。
The INC, along with other opposition parties, has alleged that the voter lists are being manipulated to favor Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The INC on Tuesday demanded the restoration of voters whose names have been removed. Modi's government, the BJP and the commission have denied the opposition's allegations.
在本地报纸《印度快报》上周的一项调查揭露库马尔的两位同事在过去十个月内至少14次正式反对选举委员会作出的决定和发布的命令后，要求撤换库马尔的呼声日益高涨。该报报道称，选举委员会在未经这两位持异议委员知情的情况下采取了上述行动。印度选举委员会由三名选举专员监督，库马尔担任首席专员。
The clamor for Kumar's removal grew after an investigation by The Indian Express, a local newspaper, revealed last week that two of Kumar's fellow commissioners formally objected at least 14 times over the past 10 months to decisions the commission took and orders it issued. The commission made the moves without the two dissenting members' knowledge, the newspaper reported. India's Election Commission is overseen by three election commissioners, with Kumar acting as chief.
在有关内部意见分歧的报道出现后，该委员会上周发表了一份声明，称：“在任何机构中，不同的观点和意见都是讨论过程中的正常现象；这些意见是最终决策前的重要组成部分。不仅三位委员会成员，委员会内的每一位官员都有权提出自己的建议，以帮助改进选举制度。”
Amid reports of internal dissent, the commission issued a statement last week, saying, "Differing views and observations are a normal part of deliberation in any institution. "They are a part of the decision-making process before a final decision is taken. Not only the three Commissioners, but every officer of the Commission is fully authorized to give his suggestions to the Commission for improving the electoral system," it said.
周三，印度国民大会党（INC）的领导人宣布，反对派联盟计划从下周周五开始，在全国所有地区举行为期一周的“拯救民主”抗议活动，并于11月1日在印度首都举行大规模集会。他告诉记者：“10月6日，所有反对党派的议员都将前往新德里的选举委员会。”
On Wednesday, the INC's Kharge also announced the opposition alliance's plan to hold a weeklong "save democracy" protest in all districts of the country from Friday to Thursday next week, and a big rally in the Indian capital on Nov. 1. "On Oct. 6, all members of parliament from the opposition parties will march to the Election Commission [in New Delhi]," he told reporters.
另一位反对派领袖、前西孟加拉邦首席部长玛玛塔·班纳吉表示：“在这个问题上，反对派各党派之间的团结非常紧密。”她指责莫迪的政党在她的邦以及其他多个邦窃取选票以赢得选举。作为议会下议院的反对党领袖，印度国民大会党的拉胡尔·甘地指责莫迪和沙阿破坏了民主制度。他说：“尤其是年轻人中，普遍存在着一种强烈的反抗情绪，他们认为印度当前的状况是错误的，必须加以制止。”
The alliance "is very much together" on this matter, said Mamata Banerjee, another opposition leader and former West Bengal chief minister who lost her state election to the BJP earlier this year. Banerjee accuses Modi's party of stealing votes to win elections in her state and several others. For his part, the INC's Rahul Gandhi, who holds the position of leader of the opposition in the lower house of parliament, charged Modi and Shah with destroying democracy. "There is a new sense of resistance, particularly among young people, that what is going on in India is wrong and needs to be stopped."
与此同时，“蟑螂民众党”（Cockroach Janta Party）也要求库马尔辞职，并宣布将于周五举行自己的抗议活动。该组织是一个由年轻人领导的非政党；由于该组织指控考试试卷被泄露，莫迪的教育部长曾在7月底辞职。
His comments came as the Cockroach Janta Party also demanded Kumar's resignation and announced its own protests on Friday. The Cockroach Janta Party is a youth-led movement, not a political party. Its weekslong protests over alleged leaks of exam papers led to the resignation of Modi's education minister in late July.
印度人民党周日抨击了甘地和反对派联盟，称其“提出毫无根据的指控，质疑选举委员会的公正性，并密谋抹黑国家的宪法机构”。
The BJP on Sunday hit out at Gandhi and the opposition alliance, saying it was "making baseless allegations questioning the impartiality of the Election Commission and for conspiring to malign the country's constitutional institutions."
该党在一份声明中表示，印度国民大会党及其盟友“因屡次选举失败而感到沮丧，仍执意破坏宪法礼仪，试图掩盖他们的失败”。随着明年包括北方邦在内的印度几个关键邦即将举行选举，执政党与反对党之间的冲突不断升级，双方都在竭尽全力争取选民。
In a statement, it said that the INC and its allies, "frustrated by their repeated electoral defeats, remain determined to undermine constitutional propriety in an attempt to conceal their failures." The clash between the ruling and opposition parties has escalated ahead of elections in several key Indian states next year, including northern Uttar Pradesh, with both sides leaving no stone unturned to woo voters.
新加坡国立大学南亚研究所研究员阿米特·兰詹表示，反对派目前似乎占据“政治优势”，但他指出，结果“取决于它如何有效地利用这一议题”来为自己谋利。
Amit Ranjan, a research fellow at the National University of Singapore's Institute of South Asian Studies, said the opposition appears to have "a political edge" at present, but says the outcome "depends on how effectively it [uses] the issue" to its advantage.
北方邦、旁遮普邦和北阿坎德邦等地的选举定于明年举行。兰詹补充说：“各政治团体可能会加快努力，就此事动员这些邦的民众。”
Elections in states like Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Uttarakhand are due next year. "The political groups may speed up their efforts to mobilize people from these states on the matter," Ranjan added.