Kolkata : As reported by the TOI, Kolkata's Chowringhee, Shyampukur, Kolkata Port, Ballygunge, Jadavpur and Kasba areas are among the assembly constituencies that will witness the highest number of voter deletions from the draft SIR roll to be published on December 16. As per the Election Commission’s status report on Friday, 11.5 lakh electors across 25 assembly segments that may be considered part of the urban sprawl in and around the metropolis will have their names struck off the draft list. The 25 assembly seats that TOI picked for the analysis include 14 in Kolkata North and Kolkata South LS constituencies, four each in Jadavpur and Dum Dum LS seats, two in Barasat LS seat and one in Diamond Harbour LS seat.
Chowringhee assembly constituency leads the pack with the highest number of voter dropouts — 74,553 — followed by Shyampukur (72,900) and Ballygunge (65,171).
Bhowanipore, which happens to be Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee’s constituency, will see 44,787 voters being left out from the draft list. A BLO in Bhowanipore said, “I have about 25 uncollectible forms and all these voters will be left out of the draft list.” Voters whose names will disappear from the draft roll are those whose SIR forms fall in the “uncollectible” category, which means their enumeration forms could not be collected because they were absent at their address, dead, could not be traced or were duplicate voters.