Over 90 lakh names are off Bengal’s rolls. Here are 5 stories from those left out

Apr 14, 2026 | 17:12 IST

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From a base figure of 7.66 crore before the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) started in Bengal, the voters’ list stands pruned to about 6.77 crore. The names of more than 90 lakh people have been removed from the electoral rolls ahead of assembly polls. Here are some of them

About 346 descendants of Mir Jafar — the commander-in-chief of Siraj-ud Daulah, whose hand in the Bengal nawab’s defeat to East India Company in the 1757 Battle of Plassey shifted the course of Indian history — have been purged from the electoral roll in Bengal.

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Over 90 lakh names are off Bengal’s rolls. Here are 5 stories from those left out

From a base figure of 7.66 crore before the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) started in Bengal, the voters’ list stands pruned to about 6.77 crore. The names of more than 90 lakh people have been removed from the electoral rolls ahead of assembly polls. Here are some of them

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Over 90 lakh names are off Bengal’s rolls. Here are 5 stories from those left out

From a base figure of 7.66 crore before the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) started in Bengal, the voters’ list stands pruned to about 6.77 crore. The names of more than 90 lakh people have been removed from the electoral rolls ahead of assembly polls. Here are some of them

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