Kolkata, Feb 6 || Around 1.6 per cent of the identified "unmapped" voters did not turn up for hearings with supporting identity documents certifying the legitimacy of their voting rights and, hence, had been identified by the electoral registration officers (EROs) as eligible for deletion from the final voters' list.
The total number of "unmapped" voters who were summoned for hearings stood at 31,68,426. Out of them, a little over 50,000 (1.57 per cent of the total unmapped voters) did not turn up for the hearing despite being served with repeated notices and hence had been identified by the EROs as eligible for deletion in the final voters' list, said sources in the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal.
"The hearing sessions for the 'unmapped' voters have been completed, and currently, the hearings for 'logical discrepancy' cases are going on. It is now final that 1.57 per cent of the 'unmapped' voters are heading for deletion from the final voters' list. Now it is to be seen how many of the "logical discrepancy" cases are identified for deletion in the final voters' list," said sources in the CEO's office.