West Bengal BJP claims more voters could have been deleted

Over 61 lakh names getting axed from West Bengal's voters' list is exactly what the BJP says happens when illegal immigrants get added to electoral rolls for years.

BJP's take on the final voters' list

• West Bengal BJP spokesperson Debjit Sarkar called out illegal Bangladeshi and Rohingya names on the rolls.
• Dead voters padding the list over the years was another allegation Sarkar threw out.
• The Election Commission of India's SIR exercise has already deleted 61,78,245 names.
• Sarkar believes even more deletions would have happened with full ECI freedom.

BJP's allegations against Trinamool Congress

• Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee allegedly tried to derail the SIR process entirely.
• Sarkar called it a deliberate ploy to mislead the public and protect illegal voter entries.
• Trinamool Congress supposedly created active hurdles during the revision exercise.

What the numbers actually look like

• West Bengal's voter count started at 7,66,37,529 when the SIR kicked off last November.
• Chief Electoral Officer Manoj Kumar Agarwal confirmed the approved final count sits at 7,04,59,284.
• Around 60 lakh more voters' identity documents are still under judicial adjudication.
• Supreme Court directions triggered the ECI-appointed officers handling those pending cases.