Special Intensive Revision | Voters await verdict
ON February 28, West Bengal’s revised electoral roll was published after four bruising months of the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise. Chief electoral officer (CEO) Manoj Kumar Agarwal pegged the post-SIR electorate at 70.46 million, down 8.06 per cent from 76.64 million before the exercise began, after 6.18 million deletions…