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Union Minister for Coal and Mines G. Kishan Reddy connected Sunday (May 17, 2026), asserted that the names of Rohingya oregon Bangladeshi nationals indispensable beryllium removed from electoral rolls during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) workout initiated by the Election Commission of India (ECI) successful Telangana.
“I authorities this categorically: if the sanction of immoderate idiosyncratic who is not an Indian national appears connected the elector list, authorities indispensable verify and region it,” helium said and stated the BJP’s Booth Level Agents (BLAs) would afloat cooperate with predetermination officials successful the process, hence different parties excessively should travel suit.
Addressing a property league astatine the party’s State office, Mr. Reddy said nary attempts to obstruct the EC’s enactment would beryllium tolerated and besides cautioned against immoderate effort to intimidate authorities officials. “My entreaty to citizens is to enactment successful the SIR and widen afloat cooperation,” helium said.
He noted that BLAs person the authorization to rise objections if ineligible names are not removed oregon if genuine voters are wrongly deleted. Questioning the opposition, helium asked wherefore the removal of alleged amerciable migrant votes “causes interest to Rahul Gandhi and the Congress party.”
Mr. Kishan Reddy accused some the BRS and Congress parties of adopting a “provocative and disparaging” stance towards officials progressive successful the revision exercise. He said each governmental parties should name booth-level agents and enactment constructively with the EC, and questioned whether the Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy had “lost faith” successful his ain medication by attributing motives to officials.
“Election officials behaviour door-to-door verification, accompanied by enactment agents. Given this established process, attempts to discredit the strategy are unwarranted,” helium said. The Union Minister besides questioned wherefore akin exercises successful states specified arsenic Kerala and Tamil Nadu are viewed arsenic proper, portion those elsewhere are criticised.
He alleged that specified disapproval amounts to “malicious propaganda” against authorities officials. “This is not the archetypal SIR exercise; akin revisions took spot during erstwhile Congress regimes without protest,” noted the BJP leader.
On substance prices, Mr. Reddy attributed the summation to “global conflicts”, stating that the Centre had reduced excise work portion Telangana continued to enforce among the highest authorities taxes connected fuel. Therefore, helium urged the State to trim its astir 35.2% levy.
Mr. Kishan Reddy besides urged Congress ministers to absorption connected harvest procurement and farmers’ issues alternatively of blaming the Centre. The harvest security strategy is yet to beryllium implemented, though Telangana presently boasts the highest atom accumulation successful the country.
