‘How do you explain the deletion of 130 million names?’: why Indian voters are on the streets

Anger at electoral roll changes has sparked protests in India, posing a challenge to Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist government. Leaders of India's Cockroach party have been jailed.

Born into a small village in West Bengal, Shahida Fakir had always taken her vote for granted. That changed when her name was suddenly removed from the electoral roll. She presented officials with her Indian birth certificate and family land documents from the village, but to no avail.