What happened: SIR draft rolls show high deletions and uneven deletion reasons
Draft electoral rolls prepared after Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in Telangana and Karnataka show a high share of deletions and sharp constituency-level variation in the reasons used for deletion. The core governance concern raised by the evidence is that extreme swings in reason-wise categorisation do not match the expectation of uniform booth-level implementation.
The four deletion reasons discussed are Shifted (or Permanently Shifted), Absent, Deceased, and Duplicate. The evidence describes Telangana and Karnataka as having the highest deletion shares among major states in the SIR outcome, with roughly one-fifth of their electoral rolls culled.
The evidence also highlights “extreme” reason-wise patterns across constituencies. Some constituencies show deletions mainly under one category, while other constituencies show deletions mainly under another category.
Telangana constituency patterns described include Jubilee Hills, where deletions are predominantly marked Shifted and deletions marked Absent are small; Jubilee Hills is described as comparable in size to Nizamabad (Urban). In Nizamabad (Urban), many deletions are marked Absent.
For Telangana, the evidence also describes Nakrekal SC (a reserved constituency) as showing deletions recorded without any deletions being classified under Absent.
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