Bengal: Post-SIR electoral rolls out, over 63 lakhs deleted

KOLKATA: (Feb 28) Over 63 lakh names were deleted from the pre-SIR electoral rolls in West Bengal, resulting in the revised total electorate of a little over 7.04 crore, Chief Electoral Officer Manoj Kumar Agarwal said on Saturday.

The voter count exceeded 7.66 crore in the state before the commencement of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls in November last year.

According to the draft electoral rolls published in December after the enumeration phase of the revision exercise, the size of the electorate shrank to around 7.08 crore, down by over 58 lakh from the pre-SIR rolls.