Kolkata, April 15 -- Mehebub Sahana was looking forward to visiting his family in West Bengal this April. A 36-year-old lecturer at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom, Sahana had booked tickets for himself, his wife, and their 18-month-old daughter.

Sahana was visiting his ancestral village in the Khandaghosh assembly constituency in Purba Bardhaman district, over 100 kms from Kolkata, to cast his vote, where the second phase of the election is scheduled for 29 April.

But as fate would have it, days before the family of three could fly out of the UK to their home town, Sahana came to know that his name had been deleted from the voter list after it was kept in the 'under adjudication' category.

"The list was published on...