Telangana Special Intensive Revision: Missing voter forms, ‘no record found’ complaints mount
HYDERABAD: Complaints about missing enumeration forms and disappearing voter records continued to rise on Tuesday despite the Election Commission’s claim that it had distributed forms to 96% of voters across Telangana under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise.
Many residents said they had not received enumeration forms. Others reported that the Election Commission’s online portal displayed “no record found” when they searched for their voter details. Estimates suggest that nearly 4% of voters in each polling booth are yet to receive the forms.
Several complaints also reached the office of Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) C. Sudharshan Reddy, as reported by DC.
Residents report missing enumeration forms
Advocate D. Malik Basha, a resident of Aliabad near Lal Darwaza, said his 65-year-old mother-in-law had not received the enumeration form. She has been a voter at the same address since before 2002.
Basha said he filed a complaint last week but has not received any response. He now plans to approach the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) circle office on Friday.
Opposition alleges gaps in SIR exercise
P. Rajesh Kumar, chairman of the Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee’s Election Commission Coordination Committee, alleged that booth level officers (BLOs) were only recording complaints about missing forms. According to him, they were not telling voters when they would receive the forms before the July 24 deadline.
He claimed that 35 to 40 voters in most polling booths had not received enumeration forms despite appearing in the 2025 electoral rolls.
Rajesh Kumar also alleged that officials did not deliver forms to many voters who were added through the four supplementary electoral rolls published after the final 2025 voter list.
Voters unable to trace electoral records
Several voters said their names appeared in the 2025 electoral roll but disappeared from the Election Commission website after the SIR mapping exercise.
Others said the ECINET app no longer displayed their Elector Photo Identity Card (EPIC) details.
Shaik Salauddin, founding president of the Telangana Gig and Platform Workers Union (TGPWU), alleged during a recent event on the SIR exercise that officials had deleted his name from the electoral roll even though he had voted in previous elections.
High Court intervention and CEO’s response
Meanwhile, S.Q. Masood approached the Telangana High Court after officials deleted the names of his entire family from the electoral roll. Following the court’s directions, election authorities will now provide him with an enumeration form.
In a letter, CEO Sudharshan Reddy said Masood could submit Form-6 along with the required declaration. He said the local BLO had the form during the house-to-house survey. He added that voters whose EPIC details no longer appeared could also follow the same process.
Responding to the complaints, Sudharshan Reddy said BLOs must distribute and collect enumeration forms from every household.
“If voters do not receive the forms, we will hold the BLOs responsible. We will not deliver forms only in three cases—’absent’, ‘shifted’ or ‘dead’,” he said.
The CEO advised voters who have not received their forms to contact the BLO supervisor or approach the Electoral Registration Officer (ERO).
