Hyderabad: AIMIM president and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi on Saturday raised several concerns regarding the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), scheduled to commence on June 25, stating that the process could place an unnecessary burden on voters and booth-level officers (BLOs).
Owaisi submitted a representation to Chief Electoral Officer C Sudarshan Reddy, proposing that data collected during the earlier pre-SIR mapping exercise be utilized to generate prefilled forms containing details from both electoral rolls. This, he argued, would reduce inconvenience to voters and minimize the workload of BLOs.
He made this suggestion against the backdrop that enumeration forms are expected to contain only details from the 2025 electoral roll, requiring voters to manually fill in information from the 2002 electoral roll.
The Hyderabad MP also highlighted that voters whose mapping was completed do not have their 2002 details, as the mapping was conducted via the BLO app, and no acknowledgement containing both 2002 and 2025 details was provided to them during the pre-SIR exercise. Consequently, he recommended issuing a standard operating procedure (SOP) to address such anomalies and ensure the enrolment of these voters in the final roll.
The AIMIM president also requested the CEO to ensure that enumeration forms are made available in English and Urdu, in addition to Telugu.
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