印度反对派联盟正把对有争议的选民名单的数周斗争搬上街头，策划一次大规模集会，意图对纳伦德拉·莫迪总理在十余年执政期间提出最严峻的挑战之一。
India’s opposition alliance is taking its weeks-long fight over contested voter rolls to the streets, staging a mass rally intended to mount one of the stiffest challenges to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his more than a decade in office.
“印度”阵营正组织周日于新德里拉姆利拉广场举行的“拯救投票，拯救国家”抗议活动。该广场位于首都中心，面积广阔，曾承办过该国规模最大的政治示威。领衔抗议并要求罢免选举委员会主任贾内什·库马尔的拉胡尔·甘地，呼吁学生、农民、工人、妇女和青年参加集会。甘地所在的印度国大党目标是吸引一百万人出席。
The INDIA bloc is organizing the “Save the Vote, Save the Country” protest on Sunday at New Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan, a sprawling ground in the heart of the capital that has hosted some of the nation’s biggest political demonstrations. Rahul Gandhi, who is spearheading the protests and seeking the ouster of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, has urged students, farmers, workers, women and youth to join the gathering. Gandhi’s Indian National Congress is targeting a turnout of one million.
“因为数百万人被剥夺了选举权，愤怒和情绪上的痛苦非常巨大。他们的选票被偷走了，”甘地在下议院的反对派领袖、在计划中的示威前表示。“我们在捍卫投票权，这是一切印度人的表达。”此次活动将把原本基本分开的两股抗议力量汇聚在一起。青年主导、带有讽刺意味的蟑螂人民党上个月组织了针对库马尔的最大规模示威，现已正式支持此次集会。该党表示，选举机构负责人已失去监督自由公平选举所需的信任，并再次要求其辞职。
“There is huge anger, huge emotional pain, because millions of people are being disenfranchised. Their vote is being stolen from them,” Gandhi, leader of the opposition in the lower house, said ahead of the planned demonstration. “We are defending the vote, which is the expression of all Indians.”The event will bring together two strands of the agitation that had largely operated separately. The youth-led, satirical movement Cockroach Janta Party, which organized some of the largest demonstrations against Kumar last month, has formally backed the rally. The group said the poll body’s chief has lost the trust required to oversee free and fair elections and repeated its demand for his resignation.
蟑螂党此前针对考试违规的行动曾吸引数万人走上街头，并以一位高级部长罕见辞职收场，展示了公众压力能够迫使政府作出让步的潜力。
The Cockroach party’s earlier campaign over exam irregularities drew tens of thousands onto the streets and ended with the rare resignation of a senior minister, demonstrating the potential for public pressure to extract concessions from the government.
最新的争议围绕一项大规模的选民名册修订工作展开，反对党指控称，数百万个名字被排除在草案名单之外，导致合法选民被剥夺选举权。选举委员会否认存在任何不当行为，称此举旨在删除重复、已故及不符合资格的选民。
The latest dispute centers on a sweeping voter-roll revision that opposition parties allege is disenfranchising legitimate voters after millions of names were excluded from draft lists. The Election Commission denies any wrongdoing, saying the exercise is intended to remove duplicate, deceased and ineligible voters.
周六，INDIA bloc的成员举行了一场象征性的公开弹劾选举专员的活动，并加大了对罢免他的要求。
Members of the INDIA bloc staged a symbolic public impeachment of the election chief Saturday and stepped up demands for his removal.
“选民是整个选举过程的核心，”前下议院议长梅拉·库马尔在活动中表示。“如果哪怕只有一名选民被剥夺投票权，那都是对我们民主灵魂本身的打击。”莫迪领导的印度人民党对反对党的指控进行了反击，为选民名册审查辩护，并指责甘地及其盟友破坏宪法机构。印度人民党还将 campaign 带上街头，批评反对党在1984年反锡克教骚乱42周年纪念日举行周日的抗议活动。
“The voter is the focal point of the entire electoral process,” Meira Kumar, a former speaker of the lower house, said during the proceedings. “If even a single voter is denied the right to cast their vote, it strikes a blow to the very soul of our democracy.”Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party has pushed back against the opposition’s accusations, defending the voter-roll review and accusing Gandhi and his allies of undermining constitutional institutions. The BJP has also taken its campaign to the streets and criticized the opposition for holding Sunday’s protest on the 42nd anniversary of the deadly 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
对于周日的集会，警方已给予许可，条件是任何人不得在任何地方游行，且集会须在下午5点前结束。
For Sunday’s gathering, the police have granted permission provided nobody marches anywhere, and it wraps up by 5 p.m.
尽管允许了这场静态抗议活动进行，莫迪政府却在更广泛层面上加强了对示威者的管控。10月10日，其政府实施大规模拘留，以阻止Cockroach团体在更靠近议会的Jantar Mantar聚集，这加剧了关于这个世界最大民主国家异议空间的辩论。
Even as it allowed the stationary protest to proceed, Modi’s administration has more broadly tightened controls on demonstrators. On Oct. 10, his administration undertook mass detentions to prevent the Cockroach group from gathering at Jantar Mantar, a location closer to parliament, sharpening a debate over the space for dissent in the world’s largest democracy.
Ramlila Maidan长期以来一直是重塑印度政治的运动集结地。2011年，一场反腐败运动吸引了数万人来到该场地，巩固了公众不满情绪，最终导致国大党领导的政府在2014年败选。几十年前，1975年由贾亚普拉卡什·纳拉扬领导的一场集会催化了对英迪拉·甘地紧急统治的抵抗。
Ramlila Maidan has long served as a staging ground for movements that reshaped Indian politics. In 2011, an anti-corruption campaign drew tens of thousands to the venue, cementing public discontent that culminated in the defeat of the Congress-led government in 2014. Decades earlier, a 1975 rally led by Jayaprakash Narayan catalyzed the resistance to Indira Gandhi’s Emergency rule.
尽管莫迪在执政的大部分时间里一直是印度全国最受欢迎的政治人物，但多场大规模街头抗议对他的政府构成了挑战。其中包括针对《公民身份修正法》的致命抗议——该法为非穆斯林移民提供快速入籍通道——以及持续一年的农民抗议。
While Modi has remained India’s most popular national politician through much of his time in power, several major street agitations have challenged his administration. They include deadly protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act — which fast-tracked citizenship for non-Muslim immigrants — and the year-long farmers’ strike.
警方副处长罗希特·拉杰比尔表示，周日集会现场已“安排大量警力和摄像头覆盖”。
There are “extensive police personnel and camera coverage arrangements” for the Sunday rally, according to Deputy Commissioner of Police Rohit Rajbir.
他说：“敏感性有所增强，我们必须防范一些可能试图扰乱整个集会的不法分子。我们非常有信心能够举行一场和平的活动。”
“The sensitivity is enhanced in a way that we have to keep a check on some nefarious elements who may try and come and disrupt the whole rally,” he said. “We’re very sure that we can carry out a peaceful event.”