Beyond numbers, how West Bengal's voter roll revision is redrawing citizenship lines
On the ground, SIR is also about reconfiguring power equations and generating narratives about who has the right to participate in the affairs of the country.| India News
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Beyond numbers, how West Bengal's voter roll revision is redrawing citizenship linesOn the ground, SIR is also about reconfiguring power equations and generating narratives about who has the right to participate in the affairs of the country.Updated on: Apr 29, 2026 6:30 AM ISTBy Neelanjan Sircar, Bhanu JoshiShare viaCopy link In a village near the banks of the Ichamati River in Taki constituency, an elderly Muslim man tells us that one son and one daughter (but not the other children) from his family were deleted from the electoral rolls during the Special Intensive Review (SIR). The booth level officer (BLO) told him that their birth certificates were rejected and helped them re-apply online. The process has shattered his trust in the bureaucracy.
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