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The Election Commission of India (EC) temporarily removed 5.8 million voter names in the draft electoral rolls published after the recently concluded special intensive revision (SIR) exercise in West Bengal. This figure comes close to the combined 6.2 million deletions from 2014 to 2024 through special summary revisions (SSRs). Debates on SIR focused on alleged
infiltrators from Bangladesh and had suggested that Muslim voters would feel a disproportionate burden of deletions. But current data does not show higher removal rates in Muslim-majority districts.
Largest voter removal in West Bengal in a decade
More voter deletions recorded in draft SIR exercises than
