In tense assembly, Revanth Reddy warns Congress leaders to take SIR severely | India Information
4 min learnHyderabadUp to date: Jun 25, 2026 12:22 PM IST
Hours earlier than the beginning of door-to-door visits by booth-level officers (BLOs) as a part of the Particular Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Telangana, Chief Minister and Congress chief Revanth Reddy on Wednesday night time held a tense assembly along with his ministers, MLAs and different occasion leaders, directing them to be additional vigilant in regards to the course of and warning of motion towards any chief discovered negligent in finishing up occasion directions.
Sources stated a number of leaders had been left upset after the assembly.
BLOs started the home-visits part of the SIR course of in Telangana on Thursday. The state’s ruling Congress, in addition to the BRS and AIMIM, have urged warning and vigilance, particularly after Telangana Chief Electoral Officer C Sudarshan Reddy stated final week {that a} pre-SIR train had flagged discrepancies with a minimum of 88 lakh voters.
In Wednesday night time’s on-line assembly on SIR with occasion leaders, CM Revanth Reddy stated he felt some occasion leaders, ministers and MLAs weren’t being critical about SIR, warning that it may harm the Congress within the state. He instructed the ministers, MLAs, MPs and constituency in-charges to be additional vigilant within the wake of considerations in regards to the potential deletion of real voters’ names from the electoral rolls.
‘Severe matter’
“The SIR problem is a really critical matter. Some leaders are being negligent about SIR,” the CM stated, including that he wouldn’t stay a silent spectator because the occasion suffers. He waved the district-wise studies he acquired relating to SIR consciousness conferences. Consciousness in regards to the SIR course of was low, the CM claimed, and he threatened to interchange district in-charges discovered to be negligent or not critical in regards to the course of.
The CM instructed leaders to organise extra consciousness conferences on SIR and entrusted the ministers in control of districts with extra duties to make the conferences profitable. He emphasised that the voting rights of the poor ought to be safeguarded through the SIR. “If the poor lose their votes, they may even lose their Aadhaar and ration playing cards,” he stated.
“All leaders ought to strictly adhere to occasion directives,” the CM stated, including, “We won’t tolerate any negligence and are observing the efficiency of the in-charges for 10 days.” Reddy additionally appealed to the occasion’s sarpanches to assist organise SIR door-to-door visits and create consciousness amongst folks in villages.
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Door-to-door visits
The SIR dwelling visits course of will go on till July 24.
The BRS and AIMIM have raised considerations {that a} rushed course of may result in errors and a botched revision of electoral rolls. AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi famous that because the monsoon has set in, the rain could impression the door-to-door visits, and urged {that a} one-month interval is probably not sufficient, warning the method could also be flawed and names of real electors could get deleted on account of errors dedicated in haste.
“Every BLO has been entrusted with the duty of visiting 800 to 1,000 electors of their space, distributing enumeration varieties, and accumulating them,” stated C Sudarshan Reddy, Telangana’s Chief Electoral Officer. He stated that through the pre-SIR train, info of round 89.88 lakh electors was discovered to have minor errors and anomalies. Within the pre-SIR train, officers verified the data of about 2.38 crore voters, whereas the state has a complete of three.38 crore registered voters.
