Kolkata, Nov. 25 -- Three weeks into West Bengal's Special Intensive Revision (SIR), the Election Commission of India is preparing for one of the state's largest voter-roll clean-ups in over two decades. Preliminary data indicates that at least 10 lakh names, reflecting years of accumulated irregularities, are likely to be deleted once the exercise is completed.
Sources within the Commission reveal that around 6.5 lakh deletions involve voters confirmed dead, while the remaining 3.5 lakh names fall under categories of duplicates, shifted voters, and those who could not be traced despite repeated verification.
A significant portion of these questionable entries is concentrated in the border districts of North and South Dinajpur, long ident...