* Sukla Hazra, 55, has her name in the electoral roll of 2002, when an Intensive Revision was held by the Election Commission in West Bengal, and holds a passport valid till December 2028. * Amiran Begum Ali, 56, and daughters-in-law Arifa Begum Sheikh, 35, and Shahida Khatun, 29, all established links to the 2002 roll, including through her grandfather in the case of Shahida. * Subarna Mondal, 39, submitted the 2002 electoral roll that had names of both her parents as well as grandparents, and later her birth certificate, and her Class 10 admit card. Yet, Sukla, Amiran, Arifa, Shahida and Subarna have been deleted from West Bengal's electoral roll because the Election Commission of India (ECI) has categorised them as entries that have a “logical discrepancy” — a criterion never used at this scale in the past. This despite the fact that all five of them can be mapped to the 2002 roll, a key pre-condition set by the ECI itself. As the clock ticks down to the polling days of April 23 and April 29, these three are illustrative cases among the lakhs who have been excluded from the state voter list. READ THE FULL STORY HERE |
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