India, March 3 -- 19-year-old Akash Saha, a resident of Kolkata's Ultadanga area, Pradip Sarkar, 61, from Baruipur in South 24 Parganas district and Taslim Mian, 54, who lives at Gangarampur in north Bengal's South Dinajpur district, don't know each other but have become subjects of a raging political issue alongside a few thousand other West Bengal residents before the 2026 assembly polls in the state.

"I turned 18 in 2024 and exercised my right to franchise in the Lok Sabha election. I found two days ago that my name has been deleted from the electoral roll. My mother's name has been deleted as well," Saha said on Sunday at a camp local Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders held to review numerous complaints of irregularities in voters' lis...