Hyderabad: AIMIM president and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi on Wednesday directed party leaders to extend all possible assistance to citizens during the upcoming special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, stressing that no genuine voter name should be deleted. Booth-level officers will begin house-to-house verification from June 25.
Party Meeting and Ground Preparations
Owaisi chaired a meeting with party legislators at Dar Us Salam, reviewing preparations and support work being carried out on the ground. Legislators and cadres highlighted challenges faced by residents during the revision process. Later, Owaisi himself conducted a door-to-door campaign in Santosh Nagar colony, Yakutpura constituency, to raise awareness about the exercise.
Accusations Against the Centre
Earlier, Owaisi accused the Centre of creating “a permanent class of excluded Indians” through the SIR. Posting on X, he said, “The Union Government first carried out a document-driven SIR that deleted nearly 6.5 crore names from electoral rolls across 13 States and UTs. Now it wants a committee to study those very exclusions and build a permanent system for the identification, detention, and deportation.”
Calling the right to vote “the poor’s only weapon against the powerful,” Owaisi warned that disenfranchisement would leave vulnerable communities exposed to arbitrary action. He noted that deletion under SIR does not determine citizenship status, with 27 lakh cases still under adjudication. Many excluded voters can reapply through Form 6, though he claimed Muslims, women, migrants and the poor were disproportionately affected.
