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Over 27 lakh voters who were enactment nether adjudication were excluded from West Bengal’s electoral rolls connected Tuesday (April 7, 2026), with implicit a 4th of specified deletions occurring successful two-Muslim dominated districts successful the State.
In all, 91 lakh names person been deleted from the State’s elector database since the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) began, meaning that West Bengal’s electorate has shrunk astir 12%, from 7.66 crore electors successful October 2025 to 6.75 crore now, days up of the Assembly election. In the past Assembly predetermination successful 2021, determination were 7.34 crore voters eligible to formed their ballot.
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After the archetypal signifier of the SIR, astir 63 lakh electors were removed from the elector database till February 28. In addition, 60.06 lakh electors were enactment nether adjudication; of these, 27.16 lakh electors were excluded connected Tuesday (April 7, 2026), according to information shared by the Chief Electoral Officer of West Bengal, indicating a 45% exclusion complaint of electors who were enactment nether adjudication.
Muslim-majority districts worst hit
The highest fig of specified deletions was seen successful Murshidabad, the territory with the highest percent of Muslim colonisation successful West Bengal. Of the 11.01 lakh names from the territory which went for judicial scrutiny implicit the past fewer weeks, implicit 4.55 lakh were excluded. North 24 Parganas, a territory which borders Bangladesh and sends the highest numbers of MLAs to the West Bengal Assembly, has registered the deletion of astir 3.25 lakh electors nether adjudication, followed by Malda, different Muslim-dominated district, with 2.39 lakh deletions.
The destiny of the 27 lakh excluded aft adjudication present lies with 19 appellate tribunals acceptable up crossed the State, and radical started thronging to these tribunals adjacent earlier the exclusion database was released. However, truthful acold arsenic this year’s Assembly predetermination is concerned, these voters person tally retired of chances to workout their franchise.
The Supreme Court connected Monday (April 6, 2026) rejected the West Bengal government’s plea to hold the freezing of the electoral rolls to springiness a past accidental for the 27 lakh voters who did not walk judicial scrutiny. Of the 294 seats successful the Assembly, 152 volition spell to the polls successful the archetypal signifier connected April 23, and the remaining 142 seats volition ballot successful the 2nd signifier connected April 29. The rolls for the archetypal signifier of the predetermination were frozen connected April 6, portion the 2nd signifier rolls volition beryllium frozen connected April 9.
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‘Vote theft’
Terming it “vote theft”, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said that a “particular community” had been targeted, successful a notation to the precocious complaint of deletions successful Muslim-majority areas. “Votes of 1 peculiar assemblage person been deleted by picking and choosing. Votes of Matuas and Rajbangshi assemblage person been deleted,” Ms. Banerjee said, portion addressing a gathering astatine Habra successful North 24 Parganas.
The Trinamool Congress chairperson has been urging radical to formed their votes against the BJP to “take revenge” for the deletion of voters’ names from the electoral rolls, and a delegation of TMC MP leaders led by Derek O’ Brien volition sojourn the Election Commission of India successful New Delhi connected Wednesday (April 8, 2026).
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BJP MLA Suvendu Adhikari, Leader of Opposition successful the MLA, claimed that amerciable Bangladesh infiltrators would beryllium removed from the electoral rolls.
Congress person Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, who is contesting from Behrampore successful Murshidabad, urged the Chief Minister to attack the Supreme Court and the ECI to guarantee that those removed from the electoral rolls during the adjudication process are inactive allowed to vote.
