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Bengal SIR: 58L voters out of revised poll rolls
The New Indian Express Vishakapatnam
|December 17, 2025
WITH deletions of more than 58 lakh alleged dead and bogus voters from the list, Election Commission of India (ECI) on Tuesday released the draft electoral rolls for West Bengal after completing phase one of Special Intensive Revision (SIR).
As per the draft electoral rolls, the names of 7,08,16,631 voters were included in the rolls in West Bengal's phase 1 of SIR.
The ECI has identified about 1.66 crores out of these voters who may be called for hearings to verify their documents again.
This story is from the December 17, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Vishakapatnam.
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