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Author: PTI
Publication: The Hindu
Date: February 22, 2006
URL: http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/001200602222169.htm
The final list of voters released today showed that 12.98 lakh names have been deleted from the electoral rolls in West Bengal, which is four times the number of deletions as compared with that in 2004 when it was 3.47 lakh.
Chief Electoral Officer Debashis Sen, who had sought the approval of the Election Commission to publish the electoral rolls two days earlier, told newsmen that the deletions were four times than in 2004 and 2005 (3.39 lakh deletions).
The CEO, however, could not give the number of dead and voters who have shifted out, or the break up of males and females.
On the other hand, there was a 1.77 per cent rise, the highest, in the number of voters, who number nearly 4.89 crore, he said. Last year 10.33 lakh new voters were added, which this year totalled 21.5 lakhs.
The final electoral roll was released after special summary revision of the draft roll.
There were 4.81 crore electors in the last Lok Sabha elections in the state in 2004.
Sen said the task of inclusion, deletion and modification under the special summary revision of electoral rolls was possible within a short time following extraordinary steps initiated by the EC to ensure a more accurate voters' list in the state.
The updating of the roll would continue till the filing of nomination papers, he said.
The 46 assembly constituencies, where photo electoral roll had been released, included the three bordering districts of Coochbehar, South Dinajpur and Nadia entirely, besides Hooghly and West Midnapore partly.
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