Ponguleti Apprehensive About SIR In Telangana

Revenue minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy said Special Intensive Revision (SIR) was a dangerous monster disguised as a legal process by the central government. He was speaking to booth-level agents at Edulapuram in Khammam district on Friday.

He told the BLAs that they should be very careful when the officials remove voters from villagers, after vote mapping. Voters would be deleted from the electoral rolls citing various reasons, he told the BLAs.

He expressed apprehension that voters would be removed from lists in areas where the



Congress has a strong influence on the electorate. The BJP had defeated two ruling parties in two states taking up the SIR exercise, he reminded. 

The minister made it clear that the BLAs should stop removal of votes. The BJP fielded its candidate despite knowing that the party candidate would be defeated if Meenakshi Natarajan was given ticket by the Congress as the Rajya Sabha candidate. 

Natarajan's nomination was illegally rejected on the grounds that an FIR had been registered in her name in Telangana, Ponguleti said.