"Nabijan Mondal, who has voted in every election for the past 50 years, suddenly finds her name missing from the list of voters published by the Election Commission of India."
"The special intensive revision (SIR) process has led to over nine million people losing their voting rights in West Bengal, nearly 12 percent of the state's voters."
"Almost six million of these nine million voters have been declared absentee or deceased, while three million will be unable to vote until special tribunals hear their cases."
West Bengal is preparing for assembly elections amid a controversial revision of electoral rolls that has excluded over nine million voters. Many affected individuals, like Nabijan Mondal, have been removed due to discrepancies in their names across different documents. The revision process has declared nearly six million voters as absentee or deceased, while three million face challenges in proving their voting rights through special tribunals. The volume of cases is expected to overwhelm the tribunals before the election dates, complicating the situation for those seeking to restore their voting rights.
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