The politics of memory and forgetting works through the opposition between the political and the everyday where forgetting can be seen as an act of political making but remembering is unearthed ethnographically through the everyday. In this paper, I present a point of departure from this understanding and argue that forgetting can itself be a political act in response to the state’s everyday violence. Through a post-pandemic ethnography of the electoral campaign of a radical Dalit organization in the West Indian state of Gujarat, I demonstrate this through their attempts to reach out to voters based on their pioneering relief work that the organization had done during the pandemic. The voters, the majority of them Muslims, however, wanted to forget the pandemic and focus on the violence that they faced during and after the pandemic from the Modi government’s reworking of citizenship laws which would have rendered them stateless. The protests and state violence that ensued, during and after the pandemic, continued to shape the memory of the pandemic and the inability of the organization and its leaders to stand up sufficiently in support of the Muslims in the area. I use this case to interrogate how authoritarian states define the contours of both remembering and forgetting. I develop this idea in conversation with the emergent work on covid ethnographies emerging from China. Finally, the paper will use the pandemic as a point of departure to develop a conversation with Veena Das’s understanding of memory-making in the context of mass violence.