India, April 10 -- Two days after the Election Commission of India (ECI) released district-wise electoral roll data after the adjudication exercise, it also released the more disaggregated and politically salient numbers at the assembly constituency (AC) level for West Bengal.

The statistics only magnify the skew in voter deletions in the adjudication exercise in comparison to the pre-adjudication Special Intensive Revision Exercise (SIR) in the state. For context, 13 states and Union territories have undergone SIR so far (although the final roll is awaited in Uttar Pradesh), and Assam underwent a Special Revision (SR) exercise. But West Bengal is the only state that underwent a special adjudication exercise after the SIR process.

The s...