Bengaluru, Oct. 30 -- Congress leader and minister Satish Jarkiholi on Thursday defended the deletion of 9.93 million names from the electoral roll in Karnataka after the special intensive revision (SIR). He said the exercise was conducted correctly and should have been the same in West Bengal, Maharashtra and Bihar, where the Congress has been critical of the process. The remarks came even as Karnataka Congress chief BK Hariprasad questioned the exclusion of voters classified as absent. Jarkiholi maintained their grievance is against the SIR in West Bengal, Maharashtra and Bihar. "The SIR in Karnataka was done right because of our protests and training. ...SIR should have happened in the same manner in other states," he said. He said the d...