The Bihar Special Intensive Revision (SIR) data, as shared by the Election Commission of India (ECI) on September 30, shows an overall deletion of 47 lakh names from the list. The new voter roll has 7.42 crore names, less than what was there on June 24. This is after addition of eligible voters and deletion of non-eligible ones. One fact is clear that in all the 38 districts, the numbers of voters has reduced and three districts lead the chart – Gopalganj, Kishanganj and Purnia.

The other thing common across all the is that the draft SIR roll on August 1 and the final one has a slight level of increase in the number of voters.

Furthermore, the deletion data shows that hardly any removal has taken place on the basis of failure to prove citizenship, which raises questions as the entire c

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