Kolkata, April 7 -- Muslims have accounted for 95.5 per cent of voters deleted from seven Special Intensive Revision (SIR) supplementary lists in West Bengal's Nandigram.

According to the Sabar Institute, a Kolkata-based public policy research organisation, the Election Commission of India's (ECI) data reveals that Muslims were largely removed from across the supplementary lists. In six of the lists, the percentage of Muslims excluded varies from 60.9 per cent to 98.7 per cent.

Muslims make up 25 per cent of the population in Nandigram, the East Midnapore Assembly constituency.

In contrast, of the 75 per cent of the non-Muslim population, a share of just 4.5 per cent were removed. Although the trend is consistent with male and female d...