Around 45% of the six million voters placed under a controversial logical discrepancy category in West Bengal may be deleted after adjudication, the state's chief electoral officer said on Monday. This will result in around 2.7 million names being deleted after adjudication.
The electoral roll published on February 28 listed 70.46 million voters after the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), which lasted nearly four months. At that point, 6.18 million names had been deleted.
With the rolls closed for phase 1, roughly 45% of these 3.2 million people – around 1.44 million people – will be unable to vote in the assembly polls.
The Election Commission published supplementary lists over the past two weeks comprising the names of voters whose cases were disposed of by judicial officers. Till Monday evening, the poll panel had published 12 names.
