India, May 1 -- Kolkata's pavement dwellers, many with Aadhaar, PAN and even voter cards, say they were not contacted for the Election Commission's Special Intensive Revision ahead of the 2026 West Bengal polls.

Experts stress homelessness is no bar to voting and BLOs must verify people at their sleeping sites.

But officials admit there was no specific directive to include this invisible electorate.

Thousands of pavement dwellers in West Bengal may have been silently disenfranchised during the 2026 West Bengal assembly elections concluded April 29, 2026.

Many of these citizens reportedly were not made part of the Election Commission of India's (ECI) much-vaunted Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process, this correspondent found. This ...