Kolkata, April 16 -- Md Ahmed Hossain Mondal, a government high school teacher in Murshidabad, has been assigned a poll duty in this assembly election in West Bengal. Hussain, 59, will be the 'first polling official' in the upcoming assembly elections in West Bengal in Murshidabad, where he works.

Hussain has already received official intimation of his poll duty. But as he prepares for it, he faces a bigger worry. Despite voting in every previous Assembly election, he may not be able to vote this time. Days after his assignment by the poll panel, Hussain discovered that his name had been removed from the voter list, despite valid documents, including service records and earlier voter ID cards.

"I do not understand why my name has been d...