Telangana Minister Ponnam challenges BJP State president to produce voters who lost voting rights

Telangana Transport Minister Ponnam Prabhakar has challenged BJP State president N. Ramchander Rao to produce voters who claim to have lost their voting rights during the revision of electoral rolls. In a statement, Prabhakar questioned Rao's remarks challenging those protesting against the deletion of votes to identify the affected voters.

He insisted that the BJP State president should facilitate the correction of errors in electoral rolls and help protect the voting rights of all eligible citizens, instead of questioning the protests. Prabhakar alleged that the revision of electoral rolls had disproportionately affected voters belonging to the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Backward Classes and minority communities, particularly those opposed to the BJP.

He claimed that nearly 40 lakh votes had been lost in the State capital and 70 lakh across Telangana in the name of electoral roll revision.

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