Hyderabad, Feb. 11 -- As many as 15,663 forms were filed in bulk to delete voters from the electoral rolls during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in Gujarat's Somnath assembly constituency in January, a majority of whom were Muslims, Newslaundry reported on February 11.

Election Commission of India's data shows that 2.6 lakh people are part of the electorate in the assembly constituency, which saw a close battle in the 2022 polls where Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Mansingh Parmar was defeated by Congress' Vimalbhai Chudasma by 922 votes. Among the 2.6 lakh voters, Congress party workers said Muslims account for at least 50,000 voters.

Among the 15,663 Form 7 applications, most were already filed by only 269 people who submitted t...