West Bengal SIR Draft: Over 58 Lakh Voter Names to Be Removed; 24 Parganas, Kolkata Lead

• West Bengal's Special Summary Revision (SIR) draft list proposes excluding a large number of voters, with some constituencies seeing over 70,000 names removed.
• Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's Bhawanipur constituency may see 44,787 names excluded, while Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari's Nandigram may lose 10,599 names.
• Kolkata Port (Mayor Firhad Hakim's constituency) could have 63,730 names removed; Chowringhee and Jorasanko may see 74,553 and 72,900 exclusions respectively.
• North and South 24 Parganas districts combined could have approximately 1.6 million names removed from the draft voter list.
• Statewide, over 5.8 million names are expected to be excluded from the draft list due to reasons like death, relocation, or untraceable voters, according to Election Commission sources.

Why It Matters: Millions of names are being removed from West Bengal's draft voter list.