Nearly 47 Lakh Risk Exclusion From Telangana List As SIR Hearings Continue
Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy is leading a campaign against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, claiming it threatens to exclude millions of voters. The Election Commission is currently conducting hearings to verify voter eligibility, while political tensions rise over allegations of bias.
Why it matters
The dispute over electoral roll integrity in a major Indian state highlights significant tensions between regional political leadership and national election authorities.
Nearly 47 lakh voters in Telangana risk being being left out of the final electoral rolls as the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) enters its final phase, even as Chief Minister Revanth Reddy has intensified his opposition to the exercise and called for a nationwide "SIR Go Back" campaign.Telangana had 3,38,26,448 registered electors when the SIR enumeration exercise began.The draft-roll exercise initially placed 73,39,235 electors, or 21.70% of the electorate, in the Absent, Shifted, Dead or Duplicate (ASDD) category.These names were excluded from the draft roll, subject to claims, objections and subsequent verification.As of September 28, election authorities had conducted 58,97,432 hearings, with 45,54,236 electors found eligible for inclusion in the final electoral rolls.Of the 92,88,181 notices required to be generated over logical discrepancies and no-mapping cases, 92,88,180 had been issued.
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