India's Supreme Court has declared that the right to be on the electoral roll and to vote in one's own country is both a constitutional and deeply sentimental entitlement, as it challenged the Election Commission over mass voter removals in West Bengal (India's third most populous state, bordering Bangladesh). The remarks came just ten days before state Assembly elections, following a Special Intensive Revision process that purged voters for what the court described as "logical discrepancies." Around 34 lakh (3.4 million) affected voters have already filed appeals across 19 Appellate Tribunals, with each tribunal facing a backlog of over one lakh (100,000) pending cases.