Free and Fair Elections in Bengal? Secret Algorithm and Mass Deletions Through SIR

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Description: Voter lists have been deliberately uploaded in a manner which makes it difficult to access, analyse and compare them.

Voter lists have been deliberately uploaded in a manner which makes it difficult to access, analyse and compare them.

Anjali Bhardwaj

Amrita Johri

Voter lists have been deliberately uploaded in a manner which makes it difficult to access, analyse and compare them.

As many as 27 lakh voters were placed "under adjudication" and effectively out of the voter rolls in West Bengal just before the 2026 elections using a secret algorithm. Was it a "logical discrepancy" or a “targeted purge”? Yogendra Yadav joins transparency activists Anjali Bhardwaj and Amrita Johri to deconstruct the West Bengal Special Intensive Revision (SIR) controversy in this edition of Jaanne Bhi Do Yaaro on The Wire.

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