Kolkata, April 15 -- Nandita Roy has been voting in elections since 2009. However, the 39-year-old faculty member at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Kolkata, is now worried that she may not be able to vote in the upcoming West Bengal Assembly elections.

Roy's name, along with those of lakhs of others, has been removed from the electoral rolls of West Bengal as part of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise conducted by the Election Commission of India.

On 14 April, Roy was among the hundreds of residents of Bengal who assembled at a mass gathering against SIR deletions in Kolkata's Park Circus. The protest was organised by Voteadhikar Rokkha Mancha, a citizens' movement against the exclusion of names.

Roy, whose father...