Bhubaneswar, July 5 -- More than 20 lakh electors have been deleted from Odisha's draft electoral roll during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process, Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of Odisha S Gopalan said on Sunday, adding that the revised draft roll now contains over 3.13 crore voters.

Gopalan said copies of the revised roll had been provided to all recognised political parties.

"When the SIR process started, there were 3 crore 33 lakh electors. Now, out of that, 20 lakh electors have been deleted and right now we have 3 crore 13 lakh 87 thousand 34 electors. Out of that, 1 crore 60 lakh 19 thousand 176 are male, 1 crore 53 lakh 65 thousand 83 are female, and 2,775 are third gender," Goplan told ANI.

The CEO said 20,12,557 elect...