Around nine million names were deleted from West Bengal's electoral rolls as part of the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, the Election Commission of India (ECI) announced on Tuesday.
The Muslim-majority district of Murshidabad recorded the highest number of deletions under the logical discrepancy category, while the border district of Nadia saw the highest percentage of rejections under the category.
Of the six million voters' claims kept under adjudication by judicial officers, around 45% were found ineligible, and their names have been dropped from the electoral roll.
The people who failed adjudication and live in the 152 constituencies voting in the first phase on April 23 will not be able to vote this time because the rolls were frozen on Monday.
With roughly 11.6% of its pre-SIR electoral roll now removed, Bengal has seen the third highest deletions among the nine states where the controversial process has been completed.
