special intensive revision
- Hyderabad
4.93 lakh SIR notices lapse as voters skip hearing in Hyderabad
Hyderabad: As many as 4.93 lakh hearing notices issued to voters in Hyderabad district during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls have lapsed after voters failed to respond within the…
- Hyderabad
In Hyderabad seats with low Muslim names, an SIR category stands out
Hyderabad: As many as 7,05,720 electors from Khairatabad, Musheerabad, Amberpet, Secunderabad, Sanathnagar and Secunderabad Cantonment stand to come off the draft roll if their exclusion is confirmed in the final Special Intensive…
- Delhi
LK Advani, Election Commissioner Sandhu get SIR notices
Former deputy prime minister LK Advani, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, former vice-president Jagdeep Dhankhar and Election Commissioner SS Sandhu are among the many prominent figures in the list of voters who…
- Hyderabad
Removal of ‘ineligible’ Hyderabad voters begins as SIR hearing continues
Hyderabad: In the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, ‘ineligible’ voters are being removed while hearings continue in Hyderabad and other districts of Telangana. According to a report in Deccan…
- Opinions
Constitutional cost of disenfranchisement: Appraising SIR
In constitutional democracies, universal adult suffrage is neither a statutory concession nor an administrative privilege; it is the foundational bedrock of popular sovereignty. When electoral roll sanitisation transitions from an inclusive audit…
- Hyderabad
SIR: 9 months after by-poll, Jubilee Hills lost 1.79 lakh names
Hyderabad: Of the 1,79,510 electors on course to come off Jubilee Hills’ draft roll in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), as many as 1,48,859 were recorded under a single category: shifted, meaning…
- India
Delhi SIR: SC to hear plea against electoral roll deletions
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday, September 17, agreed to hear on September 21 a plea against deletion of names from the electoral roll under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise…
- Hyderabad
In Karwan, 54 in 100 people excluded in SIR have Muslim names
Hyderabad: Karwan went into the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) with 3,83,190 electors. The draft roll published on August 17 carries 2,41,424, the largest surviving electorate of any Hyderabad Assembly seat. That leaves…
- Hyderabad
Replied to SIR notice in Hyderabad? What happens next
Hyderabad: In the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in Hyderabad, many electors are responding to their notices by submitting relevant documents. However, many are in a dilemma about what will happen after…
- Telangana
SIR: Telangana activists demand written notice for document gaps
Hyderabad: Members of civil society organisations and social activists in Telangana have urged election officials to bring greater transparency to the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. In a representation submitted…
- Hyderabad
1 reason, 2 constituencies, 6-fold gap: What Malakpet SIR shows
Hyderabad: In Charminar, 38 of every 100 electors left off the draft roll were recorded as “absent,” which means they were not found at the registered address when a Booth Level Officer…
- Hyderabad
SIR: 59 in 100 flagged electors in Nampally carry Muslim names
Hyderabad: A total of 1,37,126 electors have been left off the draft electoral roll in the Nampally Assembly constituency under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), in a seat the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul…
- Hyderabad
Samantha to Saina: List of Hyderabad VIPs who got SIR notices
Hyderabad: In the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Telangana, many prominent personalities, including former Indian badminton player Saina Nehwal, actress Samantha Ruth Prabhu, and former Indian batter VVS…
- Hyderabad
Prakash Raj slams modern censorship, calls SIR ‘bloodless genocide’
Hyderabad: Actor and activist Prakash Raj on Thursday, September 10, said censorship in India had taken on “an entirely different form,” one that works less through outright bans than through a climate of…
- India
Delhi SIR: Raghav Chadha’s name added to voters list
New Delhi: BJP Rajya Sabha MP from Punjab Raghav Chadha’s name has been added to the voters list of Delhi currently being revised under the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the…
