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NEW DELHI: Nearly 91 lakh names person been removed from the electoral rolls successful West Bengal pursuing the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, according to information released by the Election Commission.The canvass sheet has not yet announced the last size of the revised electorate aft completion of the process.As per authoritative information published connected February 28, astir 63.66 lakh voters, astir 8.3 per cent of the electorate, had already been deleted since the SIR began successful November past year. This brought down the elector basal from astir 7.66 crore to conscionable implicit 7.04 crore.The revised 7.04 crore fig included much than 60.06 lakh electors placed nether the “under adjudication” category.
Of these, implicit 27.16 lakh voters were aboriginal deleted pursuing scrutiny by judicial officers, portion much than 32.68 lakh were retained and included successful the last rolls.Overall, the full deletions since the commencement of the SIR process stood astatine astir 90.83 lakh, the EC information showed.“The revision workout has been carried retired successful a phased and transparent manner. District-wise information has present been placed successful the nationalist domain to guarantee implicit accountability," a elder EC authoritative said.
Out of the 60.06 lakh voters nether adjudication, information for 59.84 lakh has been published, portion 22,163 cases person been resolved but are awaiting e-signatures, the authoritative said.“Once the pending procedural formalities, including e-signatures, are completed, determination whitethorn beryllium marginal changes successful some deletion and inclusion figures,” the authoritative said.The authoritative added that the full process has been conducted successful enactment with established guidelines."Any further inclusion astatine this signifier volition beryllium taxable to ineligible provisions and directions, if any, from competent authorities," the authoritative said.Meanwhile, with the merchandise of the last supplementary list, electoral rolls for the archetypal signifier of the West Bengal Assembly elections person been frozen from midnight connected Monday, arsenic per norms.Of the full 294 assembly seats, polling for 152 constituencies volition instrumentality spot connected April 23 successful the archetypal phase, portion the remaining 142 seats volition spell to polls connected April 29.
Electoral rolls for the 2nd signifier volition beryllium frozen connected April 9.“There volition beryllium nary further inclusion successful the electoral rotation astatine this stage. The database stands frozen arsenic per instrumentality pursuing the past day of information for the archetypal phase,” a elder Election Commission authoritative told PTI.“Any alteration hereon volition beryllium solely connected caller directions, if any, from the Supreme Court," helium said.The Apex court, which is presently proceeding the SIR-related substance concerning West Bengal, is scheduled to instrumentality up the lawsuit again connected April 13.(With Inputs signifier PTI)
