Shashi Tharoor: “I have rarely seen anything like what Delhi is witnessing now, with checkpoints every few hundred metres, concrete…”

“I have rarely seen anything like what Delhi is witnessing now, with checkpoints every few hundred metres, concrete barriers and spike strips laid across our roads, a war-like deployment of 22,000 police and paramilitary across the city, 250 trains cancelled and 45 metro stations closed, and reports of young people being detained from their own homes and the streets in and around Delhi—all to prevent citizens from peacefully raising questions about the integrity of our elections.”