Almost 1 Crore Voters DELETED! | West Bengal Elections | Dhruv Rathee

The video discusses a major electoral crisis in West Bengal where an untested software system during Special Intensive Revision (SIR) has deleted 61 lakh voters and marked 60 lakh as 'suspected voters' based on minor spelling mismatches and data discrepancies. The process began in November 2025 and concluded in February 2026, affecting one in six voters in the state. The software was so poorly designed that it initially flagged all 7 crore voters as suspected in one night, requiring manual correction. The criteria for marking voters as 'suspected' included minor spelling differences, gender mismatches, and age gaps between family members that didn't meet arbitrary thresholds. Notably, many prominent citizens were affected, including Kargil war veterans, retired High Court judges, government ministers, and even the booth-level officers conducting the verification themselves. Data analysis reveals a disturbing pattern: constituencies with higher Muslim populations show disproportionately higher rates of suspected voters, with some Muslim-majority booths showing 35-58% suspected voters compared to just 3% in Hindu-majority areas within the same constituency. The Election Commission used WhatsApp messages to issue orders, violated their own written instructions, and deliberately made voter data difficult to analyze by publishing non-searchable PDF files with unnecessary watermarks. Allegations also emerged of the BJP adding voters from other states like Bihar, Rajasthan, and UP to Bengal's voter rolls through bulk Form 6 submissions, violating submission limits. The video argues this represents a systematic attempt to manipulate electoral demographics, with the 61 lakh deleted votes roughly matching TMC's victory margin in 2021.