Rangareddy tops Telangana with 9,092 electors marked for deletion during SIR

Rangareddy has recorded 9,092 electors marked for deletion during Telangana’s Special Intensive Revision. Across 119 Assembly constituencies, 32,214 electors face removal from the final rolls, as hearings continue ahead of the November 5 deadline and November 9 publication.

Hyderabad: Rangareddy district has the highest number of ineligible electors in Telangana. The ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) has revealed that this district has 9,092 voters who were found ineligible for inclusion in the final electoral rolls as of Thursday.

The data from the office of Telangana Chief Electoral Officer reveals that 7,778 electors from this district could neither map their names to the 2002 SIR list in the enumeration form nor produce valid documents to support their inclusion in the final voter list during hearings. Rangareddy also recorded the State’s highest number of unmapped voters marked for deletion from the electoral rolls.

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Another 1,314 electors in this district had logical discrepancies in their enumeration forms submitted as part of the SIR. They failed to rectify these discrepancies during the ongoing hearings and marked for deletion from the final electoral rolls.

Rangareddy is followed by Peddapalli district, where 4,447 electors were found ineligible for inclusion in the final voter list. Of these, 3,140 had logical discrepancies in their enumeration forms. Peddapalli has the highest number of electors with logical discrepancies in the State.

Warangal district recorded 1,629 electors who were found ineligible. Similarly, Hyderabad, which has the State’s largest electorate, recorded 1,067 ineligible voters.

Across Telangana, 32,214 electors in 119 Assembly constituencies are set to be removed from the final electoral rolls. The number is expected to rise as the hearing phase concludes in just over a fortnight.

Before the SIR exercise began, Telangana had 3,38,26,448 voters, of whom 2,64,87,213 submitted enumeration forms. The remaining 73,39,235 electors were categorised under Absent, Shifted, Death and Duplicate (ASDD) entries.

So far, the Election Commission of India (ECI) generated notices for 92,88,188 electors over logical discrepancies and the absence of 2002 SIR mapping in their enumeration forms. Notices have been served to 92,68,311 electors, while delivery to 19,877 remains pending. Hearings for 90,22,264 notices had been completed as of Thursday.

Meanwhile, the hearing dates for 2,58,444 electors have lapsed. Another 7,478 voters who missed their initial hearing dates also failed to attend on the rescheduled dates. So far, the names of 2,52,03,235 electors, including 84,72,742 who cleared hearings, have been marked for inclusion in the final list.

The process of issuing notices and disposing of claims and objections will conclude on November 5. The final electoral rolls will be published on November 9.