Jaipur, Feb. 21 -- At least 4.427 million voters' names have been removed from the final voter list of the special intensive revision (SIR) in Rajasthan, which was published on Saturday.

"These voters included people who were either dead, permanently shifted to a different state, were absent or have been traced in multiple places (duplicate)," said Naveen Mahajan, the chief electoral officer of Rajasthan.

According to the primary data shared by the department, at least 4,427,651 people's names were removed from the current voter lists during the exercise.

Rajasthan had 54.6 million voters when the SIR excercise began in November. In the first draft roll published in December, at least 4.184 million voters' names were removed.

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