Muslims accounted for 70% of 27 lakh voters under adjudication in Bengal roll revision: Study
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Muslims accounted for around 70% of the more than 27 lakh voters placed under adjudication during West Bengal’s special intensive revision of electoral rolls ahead of the Assembly elections, according to analysis done by a Kolkata-based research organisation.
Women accounted for 51% of the voters in the category, Sabar Institute said in a social media post on Tuesday.
Most of these voters were placed under adjudication after they were flagged for alleged logical discrepancies during the revision process, the institute said.
In the voter roll revision exercise, logical discrepancies refer to a mismatch in parents’ names, low age gap with parents and the number of children of the parents being more than six.
In West Bengal, final rolls published in February initially excluded more than 61 lakh voters, with the process continuing through supplementary lists and adjudication of about 60 lakh “doubtful and pending” cases.
By April 6, about 91 lakh voters, nearly 11.9% of West Bengal’s electorate before the revision process began, had been removed from the electoral rolls.
Ahead of the Assembly elections, about 34 lakh appeals were reportedly pending before appellate tribunals. Of these, 27 lakh were filed by persons who were excluded from the voter list. The tribunals, set up as part of the special intensive revision process, had allowed 1,607 names to be added back to the electoral rolls.
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