New Delhi, April 20 -- Tariq-ul-Alam, 27, anxiously awaits 21 April. Like other residents of Housenagar village in Tinkapuriya panchayat of Samserganj, he hopes the Election Commission of India will release additional names in the voter list, cleared by the appellate tribunals, allowing them to vote in the upcoming Assembly elections.

Samserganj, Alam's Assembly seat, saw 74,775 deletions in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), making it the worst-affected among Murshidabad's 22 assembly seats. Voting in Samserganj takes place in the first phase on 23 April.

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

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