Overview
- UIDAI informed West Bengal’s Chief Electoral Officer that nearly 34 lakh Aadhaar numbers issued in the state have been deactivated as belonging to people recorded as dead.
- UIDAI also told the Election Commission that about 13 lakh residents without Aadhaar have died, and these figures are feeding into the ongoing Special Intensive Revision of rolls.
- Election authorities say they are cross-checking using bank KYC inactivity and other local datasets and will not remove entries without field verification.
- Following door-to-door enumeration, draft electoral rolls are scheduled for publication on December 9, with EROs able to summon individuals for status confirmation if needed.
- The Trinamool Congress rejected the figures as a pre-planned bid to delete voters, threatened protests and legal action, and questioned how UIDAI provided state-wise deactivation data it previously said it did not store.