Bihar voters deleted after SIR – Artifex.News https://artifex.news Stay Connected. Stay Informed. Fri, 02 Oct 2026 20:07:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://artifex.news/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/cropped-cropped-app-logo-32x32.png Bihar voters deleted after SIR – Artifex.News https://artifex.news 32 32 Deleted, and left in limbo https://artifex.news/article71538194-ecerand29/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 20:07:00 +0000 https://artifex.news/article71538194-ecerand29/ Read More “Deleted, and left in limbo” »

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



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