All five assembly constituencies with the highest percentage of deletion from the pre-adjudication stage to post-adjudication in West Bengal were in the Muslim-majority districts of Murshidabad and Malda, an analysis of the removals in the controversial “logical discrepancy” category in the poll-bound state showed on Thursday.
Nearly 2.71 million of the six million people flagged under the “logical discrepancy” category were removed from the rolls, the Election Commission of India (ECI) announced earlier this week.
The seats with the highest deletions of electors from the pre-adjudication roll to the post-adjudication roll were Samserganj (31.7%), Lalgola (23.2%), Raghunathpur (18.4%), Mothabari (18.3%), and Bhagabangola (17.4%).
With the exception of Mothabari in Malda, all other seats are in Murshidabad district.
The TMC led in two of these seats and Congress in three in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the election closest to the special intensive revision (SIR).
