KTR urges BRS cadres to stay vigilant during SIR exercise in Telangana

BRS working president KT Rama Rao urged party cadres to remain alert during the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls, stressing the importance of removing bogus entries and ensuring genuine voters are not excluded

Hyderabad: BRS working president KT Rama Rao called upon party cadres to remain vigilant during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls and ensure that bogus entries are identified and removed at the booth level. He wanted them to ensure that no genuine voter loses their vote.

Addressing the party cadre of the Secunderabad Assembly constituency unit at Sithaphalmandi on Wednesday, Rama Rao said the voter list revision process would play a crucial role ahead of the upcoming GHMC elections. He urged Booth Level Agents (BLAs) to work like soldiers during the revision exercise.

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He reminded that irregularities in electoral rolls had affected opposition parties in some States recently and such mistakes could affect the party in Telangana. He said the SIR process was a comprehensive scrutiny of voter lists and stressed the need to ensure that every eligible voter was enrolled while names of deceased persons and shifted voters were removed.

Referring to alleged discrepancies in previous elections, the BRS working president said instances of a single voter being registered in multiple constituencies had been identified. He said the party would provide a workbook containing details of suspected duplicate voters in the Secunderabad constituency and asked cadres to verify them on the ground.

He said Booth Level Officers would conduct door-to-door verification from June 25 to July 24 and that the final electoral roll, to be published on October 1, would be significant for future local body polls.

Rama Rao also announced that the party’s membership drive would commence this month through a new digital application. He said members would be enrolled by uploading a photograph and mobile number, with details automatically linked to voter identification records. He assured party workers that BRS would issue photo identity cards and strengthen its grassroots organisational structure through the digital enrolment campaign.

He said the party leadership would stand by its cadre and that local MLA T Padma Rao Goud would actively engage with workers across the constituency. BRSLP deputy leader Talasani Srinivas Yadav, former MLC Saleem, BRS general secretary RS Praveen Kumar and other party leaders, also attended the meeting.