Kolkata, Dec 3 || Over 46 lakh names in West Bengal have already been identified for exclusion in the voters’ list as per the latest trend available during the digitisation of the enumeration forms in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) by the Election Commission of India (ECI) that started from November 4.
The total number of names found eligible for exclusion from the voters' list currently stands at 46.30 lakh, and this is as per the trend of the digitisation of the enumeration forms completed till Tuesday evening.
The same figure was 43.50 lakh as per the trend of digitisation completed till Monday evening. This means that a total of 2.70 lakh names have been included in the list of names eligible for exclusion from the voters' list within 24 hours.
Insiders from the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal, have said that of the 46.20 lakh names found eligible for exclusion till Tuesday evening, around 22.28 lakh names come under the “deceased voters” category.