draft poll rolls out for odisha, manipur, sikkim

New Delhi/Bhubaneswar/Imphal, July 6 -- ECI on Sunday published draft electoral rolls for three states after the first phase of the Special Intensive Revision, with Sikkim accounting for the largest percentage of deletions at 8.01%, followed by Manipur at 7.58% and Odisha at 6.02%. Of the draft rolls released on Sunday, in absolute terms, Odisha saw its roll contract the most, with 2.01 million voters deleted out of list of 33.3 million. This was followed by Manipur, which lost 158,677 of 2.09 million voters, and then Sikkim (37,724 of 471,018 names were deleted).P6

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