Kolkata’s special electoral roll revision left many families fractured on poll day. While some voted, lakhs were disenfranchised as their names were deleted. Instances like Mariam Zaki, whose father and grandfather couldn’t vote, and former MP Tarun Mandal highlight the widespread disappointment and confusion caused by the process, leaving many questioning the fairness of the deletions.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Kolkata’s special electoral roll revision left many families fractured on poll day. While some voted, lakhs were disenfranchised as their names were deleted. Instances like Mariam Zaki, whose father and grandfather couldn’t vote, and former MP Tarun Mandal highlight the widespread disappointment and confusion caused by the process, leaving many questioning the fairness of the… Read More »SIR divides families across Kolkata: Chosen few celebrate vote as lakhs mourn deletion<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":106676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106675"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}