Lucknow, Jan. 11 -- The sitting MLAs in Lucknow's urban assembly constituencies and the runners-up in the 2022 assembly polls have mentioned a number of reasons for the huge drop in the number of voters in the draft electoral rolls in the respective Vidhan Sabha constituencies.

The reasons cited by them include "disappearance of booths", possible errors in enumeration and the shifting of voters. In some instances, the number of names deleted in the draft rolls in the state capital's constituencies is more than the 2022 victory margin.

Deputy chief minister Brajesh Pathak, the BJP MLA from Lucknow Cantonment assembly constituency, said, "30 booths have disappeared from my assembly area. Of these, 19 booths vanished from various railway c...