Disenfranchised Before The Polls? Protest In Kolkata Spotlights Deleted Voters

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With election day closing in, a quiet anxiety is surfacing on the streets of Kolkata. Holding placards and raising slogans, members of Votadhikar Raksha Mancha staged a protest against what they claim are arbitrary deletions of voters—turning a bureaucratic exercise into a question of democratic rights.

Special Intensive Revision Protest
Members of Votadhikar Raksha Mancha stage a protest demanding voting rights for deleted voters ahead of the West Bengal Assembly elections, in Kolkata. | Photo: PTI/Manvender Vashist Lav
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WB Voter Roll Protest 2025-2026
Members of Votadhikar Raksha Mancha stage a protest demanding voting rights for deleted voters ahead of the West Bengal Assembly elections, in Kolkata. | Photo: PTI/Manvender Vashist Lav
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Bengal battleground voter roll
Members of Votadhikar Raksha Mancha stage a protest demanding voting rights for deleted voters ahead of the West Bengal Assembly elections, in Kolkata. | Photo: PTI/Manvender Vashist Lav
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voter list revision protest
Members of Votadhikar Raksha Mancha stage a protest demanding voting rights for deleted voters ahead of the West Bengal Assembly elections, in Kolkata. | Photo: PTI/Manvender Vashist Lav
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Protest Against Special Intensive Revision
Members of Votadhikar Raksha Mancha stage a protest demanding voting rights for deleted voters ahead of the West Bengal Assembly elections, in Kolkata. Members of Votadhikar Raksha Mancha stage a protest demanding voting rights for deleted voters ahead of the West Bengal Assembly elections, in Kolkata. | Photo: PTI/Manvender Vashist Lav
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Votadhikar Raksha Mancha SIR protest
Members of Votadhikar Raksha Mancha stage a protest demanding voting rights for deleted voters ahead of the West Bengal Assembly elections, in Kolkata. | Photo: PTI/Manvender Vashist Lav
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Members of Votadhikar Raksha Mancha stage a protest demanding voting rights for deleted voters ahead of the West Bengal Assembly elections, in Kolkata.
Members of Votadhikar Raksha Mancha stage a protest demanding voting rights for deleted voters ahead of the West Bengal Assembly elections, in Kolkata. | Photo: PTI/Manvender Vashist Lav

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