Kolkata, March 1 -- Nearly half of the over 60 lakh voters whose names are under adjudication following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) belong to just three minority-dominated districts of West Bengal-Murshidabad, Malda and Uttar Dinajpur.
This emerged when the Election Commission of India partially published the final electoral roll and later released district-wise data on Saturday evening.
According to the Commission, 5,46,053 additional names have been deleted in the latest phase of the SIR.
Even after this, the names of slightly over 60 lakh voters remain under consideration.
The district-wise break-up shows that Murshidabad alone accounts for 11,01,145 such voters, followed by Malda with 8,28,127 and Uttar Dinajpur with 4,80,3...