Declared dead: Indian voters fight to get back on electoral rolls

By Saurabh Sharma NEW DELHI, Oct 20 (Reuters) Kamta Prasad has been shuttling between government offices in Delhi trying to prove he is not dead. The 53-year-old tailor is among 130 million names removed from India s electoral rolls under a voter roll revision that has sparked mass protests and posed the biggest challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi s government. The ​Special Intensive Revision (SIR) has led to removals for reasons ranging from logical discrepancies to people being recorded as dead, ‌leaving many such as Prasad struggling to get more than just their voting status restored. He has had to forgo his daily wage of 250 rupees ($2.63) that supports his family of four to scurry around the city to reverse the error. I panicked when I heard about it, said Prasad, who is among 4.2 million Delhi voters struck off the list, according to the draft rolls published by the poll body on August 31.  Since then I ve been going everywhere to prove ‌that I m ​alive. The deletio