The EC did not specify the grounds on which names in the draft roll were found to be of "ayogya" (ineligible) electors by the time of the publication of the final roll. Representational/File

Bihar Assembly Election : The Election Commission on Tuesday published its final electoral roll in Bihar, containing details of 7.42 crore voters, a drop of more than 47 lakh since June, when the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) was launched.

The number of voters in the final roll is, however, higher than in the draft roll (7.24 crore), which came out in August after names of 65 lakh electors were knocked off as they were found to be “absent”, “shifted” or “dead”.

According to a statement issued by the Chief Electoral Officer of Bihar, names of 21.53 lakh “eligible voters”, which got left out in t

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