13 crore names struck off, only 70 lakh were unexplained: Surjit Bhalla's SIR math
Economist Surjit Bhalla estimates that around 70 lakh eligible voters may have been removed without explanation during the SIR while arguing that most of the 1337 crore draft-stage deletions were justified as they included names of deceased voters people who had relocated duplicate entries and untraceable voters

