Using institutions to remove people’s names from the West Bengal electoral roll through an opaque bureaucratic process is fraught with negative consequences.
Voters at a polling station in Hooghly, West Bengal. A disproportionate number of Muslims were called for SIR-related hearings in West Bengal. Government Open Data License – India (GODL), Wikimedia Commons.
Using institutions to remove people’s names from the West Bengal electoral roll through an opaque bureaucratic process is fraught with negative consequences.
A resident of Malda district, Shweta Das found to her consternation that her name had been struck off the West Bengal electoral roll published on February 28.
But Shweta’s parents’ names were on the list even as she appeared for an in-person hearing which is part of the contentious and controversial Special Intensive Revision of the voters list.
