An additional five lakh voters were deleted from the final rolls published on February 28. That brings the total deletion of voters from Bengal’s electoral rolls at slightly below 91 lakh. Of the 294 seats in the Bengal Assembly, 152 seats will go to the polls on April 23 in the first phase. Now the list has come out and 32 lakh voters of the 60 lakh under adjudication have been included. In Bihar, where the first SIR was first rolled out, around 65 lakh voters were deleted in the draft rolls from the 7.89 crore electors.

Source: The Telegraph April 07, 2026 07:13 UTC