Lucknow, Jan. 6 -- Following the completion of the enumeration phase of Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in Uttar Pradesh, the Office of the state Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) has said that Lucknow has the highest number of voters deleted, 30.04 per cent, in the draft Electoral roll.

According to UP CEO Navdeep Rinwa, on October 27, there were 39,94,535 electors in the city, while on January 5, the number was brought down to 27,94,397 voters. Ghaziabad recorded the second-highest deletion with 28,37,991 electors on October 27 and 20,19,852 voters on January 5.

On Tuesday, Rinwa said that 18.70 per cent of names were removed from the draft voter list, prior to being published after the Enumeration Phase of Special Intensive Revision (SI...