All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) president Asaduddin Owaisi on Friday described the upcoming Special Intensive Review (SIR) of electoral rolls in Telangana as a “matter of life and death”.
He urged voters to take the SIR process “seriously” and asked them to fully cooperate with booth level officials during the verification.
“I request you all that from June 25, as you know, the SIR process will begin. When it begins, the enumerators along with booth-level officials will visit the homes of voters with the forms and hand them over to the voters or their families,” Owaisi told a gathering in Hyderabad.
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The SIR will start in Telangana from June 15, with booth level staff conducting door to door verification from June 25 onwards.
The Hyderabad MP said his party has appointed booth-level agents to assist people in the SIR process.
“I appeal to all voters that when the SIR process begins in Telangana from June 25, please take it seriously,” Owaisi said, adding: “This is a very important issue. I am not saying this to stir up sentiments or to scare you, but this is a matter of our life and death.”
He urged voters who cannot read to have the form scanned by council staff deployed as booth level agents (BLA) or by any trusted person.
“When the BLO comes to your home and delivers the forms, you must read them. You must check whether the maps are drawn correctly or wrongly,” he added.
Owaisi said that his party has been working on this issue for the past months and a half.
“It is the responsibility of all of us. In the last one and a half months, no other political party in the entire country has worked on SIR the way Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen has done. We have also created an app for this,” he said.
Congress is gearing up for SIR in Telangana
The Congress also prepared for the upcoming SIR and said that the party will not allow what happened in Bihar and Kolkata to be repeated in the state.
“It is a very important issue. We will not let what happened in Bihar and Kolkata happen in Telangana. There is still time,” state minister and former cricketer Mohammad Azharuddin told reporters.
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Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy has drawn up the party’s action plan to protect vulnerable groups, especially Dalits, minorities, adivasis, tribals and migrant workers from having their names deleted.
While participating in a meeting of the Congress party’s Political Affairs Committee, the Prime Minister warned that SIR may emerge as a major issue for Lambada, Adivasis and migrant workers.
The Election Commission on May 14 announced the conduct of the third phase of AIR for electoral rolls across 16 states and three union territories, covering over 36 crore voters in a phased manner, including Telangana.
