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Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) met Telangana Chief Electoral Officer C. Sudarshan Reddy and submitted a elaborate memorandum expressing concerns and suggestions regarding the projected Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls successful the State.
A delegation led by TPCC president Bomma Mahesh Kumar Goud, and consisting Minister Ponnam Prabhakar, MLAs Naveen Yadav, Ganesh and Kavampalli Satyanarayana, MPs Chamala Kiran Kumar Reddy and Anil Kumar Yadav and the party’s Election Commission Coordination Committee, led by president Pulipati Rajesh Kumar, met the CEO successful Hyderabad connected Friday (May 15, 2026) and urged the Election Commission to guarantee that the elector database revision process is carried retired successful a fair, transparent and impartial manner.
In the representation, the Congress enactment highlighted concerns implicit the standard of the exercise, pointing retired that astir 25 years had passed since the past SIR conducted successful 2002 successful the erstwhile agreed Andhra Pradesh. The enactment noted that the elector colonisation had accrued importantly since past and sought a phased and cautiously planned revision process alternatively of a hurried exercise.
The memorandum suggested that the SIR process beryllium dispersed implicit one-and-half to 2 years, arguing that determination were nary large elections scheduled successful the contiguous future. According to the party, specified a timeline would assistance trim administrative pressure, let capable clip for objections and corrections, and minimise nationalist anxiety.
The Congress leaders besides objected to assigning dual responsibilities to authorities unit engaged successful some census-related enactment and electoral revision duties. They sought abstracted manpower deployment to debar administrative load and guarantee efficiency.
Among the cardinal demands made by the enactment were providing recognised governmental parties with brushed and hard copies of elector lists from 2002 and 2025, extending the objection and announcement play to astatine slightest 1 month, ensuring carnal announcement earlier deleting immoderate voter’s name, and conducting due tract verification earlier immoderate deletion based connected bundle discrepancies.
The enactment besides stressed the value of transparency successful the functioning of Booth Level Officers (BLOs) and Booth Level Agents (BLAs). It demanded geo-tagged impervious of location visits by BLOs, mandatory grooming for BLAs, and timely sharing of ASD (Absent, Shifted, Dead) elector lists with recognised governmental parties.
The memorandum referred to alleged irregularities successful the ongoing pre-SIR mapping process, claiming that BLOs successful immoderate areas conducted verification from fixed locations successful relation with leaders of definite governmental parties alternatively of carrying retired door-to-door verification arsenic mandated by the Election Commission of India.
Congress leaders further alleged that immoderate BLOs mapped voters without due verification and that definite governmental activists allegedly utilized BLO login credentials for verification activities. The enactment urged the CEO to analyse specified complaints and instrumentality strict enactment against immoderate irregularities.
The memorandum besides raised concerns implicit imaginable misuse of Form-7 applications for bulk deletion of voters, citing experiences from different States. The Congress demanded strict verification earlier deleting immoderate elector and sought disciplinary enactment against officials liable for wrongful deletions.
The enactment besides urged the Election Commission not to question impervious of citizenship during the SIR process, asserting that the workout should not go a “backdoor NRC-like process.” It further sought safeguards for migrant voters who had shifted to Telangana aft 2002 and recommended peculiar consciousness programmes for weaker sections, including Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and minorities.
