Overview
- UIDAI informed West Bengal’s Chief Electoral Officer that it deactivated Aadhaar numbers for roughly 32–34 lakh deceased residents.
- The Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision, underway since November 4, is using Aadhaar as an indicative identity document during verification.
- Sources say election authorities have also identified about 13 lakh deceased people without Aadhaar for potential removal from the rolls.
- Trinamool Congress labeled the effort a planted bid to delete voters and vowed protests and legal action if genuine names are struck off.
- With 7.66 crore registered voters, removing up to around 47 lakh entries could affect about 5 percent of the electorate as opposition parties, mainly the BJP, push to purge deceased and fake voters.