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Missing Voters Are the State's Burden to Explain, Not the Citizen's Choice

The Drèze-Yadav column directly answers Bhalla's estimate that only about 70 lakh voters were unfairly excluded. It comes amid wider controversy over the Election Commission's deletion of more than 13.3 crore names during the Special Intensive Revision. Economists Jean Drèze and Yogendra Yadav rebutted claims that voter deletions were routine, estimating that the Election Commission's Special Intensive Revision has left 14…