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India loses its last left-wing government after five decades (www.aljazeera.com)

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[–] limonfiesta@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Ali, 65, and his children are among nine million voters - about 12% of West Bengal's 76 million electorate - who have been removed from the 2026 rolls as part of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise.

Source: BBC, April 12th, 2026

Millions.

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 day ago

And I agreed that West Bengal had higher figures in my response, but I was talking about Kerala because that is what the post's article is about.