Kolkata, Jan. 23 -- More than three lakh 'no-mapping' voters did not appear for hearings under the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal, despite being served notices by the Election Commission.
According to Commission sources, notices specifying dates and venues were issued to nearly 32 lakh 'no-mapping' voters.
As the hearing process is now nearing completion, data shows that around 10 per cent of them failed to turn up.
This translates to nearly 3.2 lakh voters who remained absent from the hearings.
At the time of publishing the draft electoral rolls, the Commission had stated that West Bengal had 31,68,426 'no-mapping' voters-electors who could not establish a linkage with the last SIR conducted ...