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remove duplicate, deceased or “ineligible” voters. Across West Bengal, more than nine million names — nearly
West Bengal after the Election Commission removed millions of voters from electoral rolls. Three other
West Bengal controversially removed more than nine million people – nearly 12 percent of the state’s 76 million voters
West Bengal’s electoral roll, under the guise of “purging” it of illegal voters. As a result of the project, called a special intensive revision (SIR), more than 2.7 million voters were removed
West Bengal, in part because of it does not have the backing of state’s sizeable Muslim population, who are wary of their Hindu nationalist agenda. In some Muslim-majority constituencies, almost half the voters
West Bengal shows that Muslims have been disproportionately affected by the SIR exercise, mainly in districts where they constitute a high percentage of the population and could sway the election, including Murshidabad with
West Bengal and the TVK in Tamil Nadu would be nothing short of a “political earthquake”. “The aftershocks of these results will be felt far and wide for a long time, … probably
West Bengal's electorate is larger than Germany's, turning its election into something closer to a nation choosing a government than a routine Indian state poll. Monday's BJP victory there would rank among