BRS flags ‘44 votes’ at one address
Dasoju Sravan says a Banjara Hills commercial building saw suspected voter entries rise from 19 to 44 during the Special Intensive Revision. He wants the Election Commission to audit, verify on the ground and fix it — before the Congress gets to pretend this is all routine.
The Election Commission has been asked to verify the voter entries linked to a commercial building in Banjara Hills.
BRS MLC Dasoju Sravan has alleged that a private commercial building in Banjara Hills — polling booth 237 in Khairatabad — was treated as a residential address, with 19 suspected entries on the rolls before the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) turning into 44 in the revised list. He said the party will move the Election Commission of India and the Telangana CEO with complaints and supporting material, and demanded a field verification and a forensic audit of rolls where addresses show unusually high voter counts. According to Sravan, BRS had already flagged the address to the ERO and BLO and got nowhere.
The SIR timetable is the Commission’s own: door‑to‑door enumeration, draft rolls by 31 July, claims and objections till 30 August, final rolls on 1 October, per the CEO’s schedule reported by public radio. If a commercial office block really became a 44‑voter household in the middle of that process, it is exactly what SIR is meant to catch — not wave through.
Sravan’s broader line has been consistent since June: “One citizen, one vote is the fundamental principle of democracy,” and duplicate or shifted entries need statutory cleanup backed by tech and field checks. The BRS wants scrutiny of commercial premises and addresses piling up voters, and action on officials if negligence is found.
What is established today is the allegation and the ask. The underlying roll extracts, the exact address, and any response from the CEO/ERO/BLO are not yet on the record. The Commission runs a portal to search rolls, file objections and seek deletions — and it now has a very specific one to answer. The BJP will happily shout “law and order” at Telangana; the test here is electoral order, and the ball is with the election machinery that both national parties swear by at election time and forget between cycles.