New Delhi, Oct. 10 -- Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant defended the integrity of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, dismissing the Opposition's allegations of electoral manipulation and asserting that the state's electoral rolls were fair and transparent.

Sawant also said the deletion of names was linked to deceased voters, duplicate registrations and people who had migrated out of the coastal state, maintaining that Booth Level Officers (BLOs) were carrying out verification at the grassroots level.

In an exclusive interview with ANI, Sawant addressed questions about the deletion of 1.27 lakh names from Goa's electoral rolls and allegations of irregularities, including a reported software problem involving 97 cases, further ...