Deleted, and left in limbo

Across Bihar and West Bengal, lakhs of voters were deleted from the electoral rolls during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, leaving them incapable to ballot successful the 2025 and 2026 Assembly elections. Over 47 lakh names were deleted successful Bihar and astir 91 lakh successful West Bengal. Shrabana Chatterjee and Senjuti Sengupta met immoderate of those affected, documenting the uncertainty, paperwork, and repeated attempts to beryllium their citizenship and eligibility that followed the deletions