7.3 million names not included in Telangana draft rolls
As many as 7
Seven and a half million names were omitted from Telangana's draft electoral rolls, disclosed by the Election Commission of India (ECI) on Monday during the special intensive revision (SIR) process. An additional nine and a half million electors will receive notices for discrepancies or lack of proof linking them to the 2002 rolls, according to Telangana Chief Electoral Officer C Sudharshan Reddy.
Approximately seven and a half million names were missing, displaced, deceased, or duplicated. Eligible voters can still have their names added to the electoral rolls within the claims and objections period from August 17 to September 16 by submitting Form 6 with the required declaration form. As of now, enumeration forms for 7,339,234 electors, constituting 21.70% of the total, have not been collected and uploaded.
The revision aimed to enhance voter participation and not indiscriminately eliminate names from the rolls. The SIR exercise revealed that 45,18,961 voters, or 16.99% of the total, permanently shifted residences and were categorized as migrants, found to be no longer residing at their stated addresses. Additionally, 922,230 voters died, 1,125,546 were not available at given addresses or untraceable, and 670,203 had already enrolled elsewhere.
Another 102,294 voters did not submit their enumeration forms. The SIR also revealed inconsistencies in the digitization of around 61 lakh enumeration forms, with Yadadri-Bhuvanagiri district leading at 94.31% and Hyderabad lagging at 58.89%. As a result, Hyderabad's voter count dropped from nearly 1.14 crore to around 71 lakh after the SIR completion.
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