New Delhi, April 20 -- Tariq-ul-Alam is 27. Like other residents of Housenagar village in Tinkapuriya panchayat of Samserganj, he is desperately waiting for 21 April. The Election Commission of India is expected to release additional names in the voter list who have been cleared by appellate tribunals and can vote in the upcoming polls.

Samserganj, the assembly seat where Alam lives, recorded 74,775 deletions and is thus the worst-affected of the 22 assembly seats in Murshidabad, where polling is being held in the first phase on 23 April.

Murshidabad recorded the highest number of deletions during the Election Commission's Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise across poll-bound West Bengal, with a total of 4,55,137 names removed.

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