, April 13 -- Around nine million people have been removed from the voter list in India's West Bengal, triggering political tensions ahead of the state election later this month.

Muhammad Daud Ali, 65, a former Indian army technician said, he recently found that his name and those of his three children were missing from the electoral roll, despite having valid documents such as a passport and service records. Only his wife's name remains on the list.

Officials said the deletions were made under a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process. The removed names account for about 12 percent of the state's 76 million voters reports BBC.

More than six million names were dropped after being marked as absent or deceased. Another 2.7 million peopl...