Hyderabad, April 11 -- Raju Halder, a Howrah resident who works as a second-generation Indian flag maker, said he found his name missing from the electoral rolls following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in West Bengal.

Halder, who said he holds an Indian passport and has voted previously, lives in a house painted in the colours of the Indian tricolour and earns a living making national flags.

His case comes amid large-scale deletions from the state's voter lists during the SIR process carried out by the Election Commission over the past several months, a process that has also emerged as a key political flashpoint in several districts, particularly in minority-dominated belts.

Revision process

According to official data,...