After SIR, number of voters in Mamata Banerjee's seat down 25%

KOLKATA: The Bhowanipore assembly constituency - the high-profile spot wherever Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee is pitted against BJP's Suvendu Adhikari - has seen its electorate shrink by astir 25% pursuing the SIR of the electoral roll.Of the full 51,004 deletions, 23.3% are Muslims and 76.7% are non-Muslims.Before the SIR process, Bhowanipore had 2,06,295 voters. In the archetypal phase, 44,787 names were removed nether categories specified arsenic absent, shifted, deceased, duplicate, oregon unmapped. A 2nd circular saw different 2,342 deletions, portion 18 caller voters were added. Around 14,154 voters were placed nether adjudication, a root said.Sabar Institute researchers said their investigation of 15 supplementary lists showed 10,238 voters initially marked for adjudication were aboriginal reinstated, portion 3,875 were deleted.

"Among those deleted successful supplementary lists, astir 40% are Muslims," 1 of them said.EC sources said astir 3,500 names were deleted during the adjudication process. "Nearly 14,000 cases were marked for adjudication," an authoritative said.The institute's investigation besides showed 43% of non-Muslims were placed nether adjudication. While 7.7% of Muslims were yet deleted from the last rolls, the fig for non-Muslims stood astatine 92%.

Earlier information showed Muslims accounted for 22.7% of voters marked arsenic 'absent, shifted, dead/duplicate', portion their stock among 'unmapped' voters was astir 26%, successful enactment with their population. However, successful the 'logical discrepancy' category, their stock roseate to 52%.