West Bengal SIR: 5.46 lakh names deleted, 1.82 lakh added in voter roll update | India News
New Delhi: West Bengal now has over 7.04 crore voters in its post-Special Intensive Revision (SIR) voters’ list, Chief Electoral Officer Manoj Kumar Aggarwal said on Saturday.During revision, more than 5.46 lakh names were deleted through Form-7. At the same time, more than 1.82 lakh voters were added through Form-6 and Form-6A.
Aggarwal said more than 58 lakh enumeration forms were not received. These cases include dead, transferred and fake electors.He added that more than 60 lakh voters are still in the “under adjudication” category but have been included in the updated list.The SIR process, the first such statewide revision since 2002, began on November 4 last year with the distribution of enumeration forms. The commission took 116 days to tentatively complete the exercise and release what officials described as a “final but dynamic” list, as several cases are under trial.
