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Published on: 04/29/2026 - 1:47 p.m.

Last year, the Election Commission of India launched an operation billed as aimed at weeding out duplicate or deceased voters. Since then, more than 55 million voters have been deregistered in the 13 states that conducted this “special intensive revision”. This operation has also become a major point of political tension in West Bengal, where 9 million people have been removed from the lists in the run-up to a crucial regional election.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), hopes to win these regional elections. Opposition leaders and former officials believe that the scale and timing of these delistings could undermine democratic fairness and distort the outcome of the election.

The controversy has become one of the major issues of the electoral campaign. It revealed deep divides around voting rights and the integrity of the Indian electoral system.

A report produced by Navodita Kumari, Zubair Dar and Mohammad Sartaj Alam.

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