Lucknow/Delhi, Dec. 19 -- Roughly 29.6 million names in Uttar Pradesh might get excised from the rolls after the special intensive revision, with the highest percentage of deletions likely to be seen in urban hubs such as Ghaziabad, Lucknow, Kanpur, Meerut and Agra, election commission said on Thursday. The first phase of the SIR in the state is set to end on December 26. If these numbers hold, then it'll represent about 19% of the 154 million electors in Uttar Pradesh as on October 27. This is more than double the proportion seen in West Bengal, Rajasthan, and Bihar, the other big states where SIR is underway or has already taken place. Chief minister Yogi Adityanath drew attention to the numbers earlier this week during a meeting of Bhara...