AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday directed chief minister A Revanth Reddy and TPCC president B Mahesh Kumar Goud to take the ensuing special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls seriously and ensure that eligible voters are retained on the electoral list.
CM Revanth, deputy CM Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka, AICC leader Meenakshi Natarajan, and Mahesh Goud met Kharge at a star hotel in Shamshabad. Kharge arrived at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport on Saturday night. As his flight to Gulbarga was at 9 am on Sunday, he stayed at the hotel overnight.
He was received by government advisor (protocol) Harkar Venugopal and deputy CM Bhatti. Later, irrigation minister N Uttam Kumar Reddy and other ministers also paid a courtesy visit to Kharge at the hotel.
Kharge advised the CM, deputy CM, Meenakshi Natarajan, and Mahesh Goud to ensure that large-scale deletion of voters does not take place in Telangana, as happened in Bihar and West Bengal.
Mahesh Goud explained to the AICC president that polling booth level agents were being trained to monitor the SIR exercise. He said that from ministers to MPs, MLCs, MLAs, and district, mandal, and village-level presidents have been given the responsibility to monitor the SIR in both assembly and parliamentary constituencies and ensure that genuine voters are retained on the voter rolls.
CM Revanth had a one-on-one meeting with Kharge. The CMO said they discussed political developments and government programs being implemented in Telangana.
A senior Congress leader told TOI that Kharge had said the party leadership in New Delhi had received positive reports of the two-and-a-half years of the Revanth-led Congress government in Telangana.
