Kolkata, June 28 -- Former editor of The Telegraph, R Rajagopal, finds himself in a "state of civic uncertainty". His passport renewal has been put on hold after his name was found missing from Bengal's Special Intensive Revision (SIR) electoral rolls, along with nearly 27 lakh others.

In an editorial for The Wire, Rajagopal said he was taken aback after his name was excluded from the voters' list in the Ballygunge constituency in Kolkata in March this year.

The election officers could neither trace his nor his father's names in the 2002 voters' list.

The former editor was told 'logical discrepancies' as the reason.

"My father, a Gandhian, retired professor and former State Secretary of the Gandhi Smarak Nidhi in Kerala, passed away i...