Jubilee Hills draft roll loses 1.79 lakh names
Nearly 83% of the names flagged in the SIR exercise were marked “shifted”. They were not yet final deletions, but the paperwork has managed to make voting look like a treasure hunt.
Jubilee Hills’ draft roll marked 1,79,510 names for review, with most categorised as “shifted”.
Jubilee Hills’ draft electoral roll has left out 1,79,510 names under Telangana’s Special Intensive Revision, reducing the constituency’s listed electors from 4,06,729 to 2,27,219, according to reports based on data released by the Telangana Chief Electoral Officer.
Of those flagged names, 1,48,859 — about 83 in every 100 — were categorised as “shifted”. The CEO’s explanation is that voters not found at their registered address may be marked “shifted” or “absent”, and that only voters whose enumeration forms were submitted would appear in the draft roll. Voters missing from it can file Form 6 for inclusion; Form 8 is available for address corrections.
This is a draft-roll exclusion, not proof that 1.79 lakh voters were finally deleted. The CEO has said Electoral Registration Officers must verify documents and issue a reasoned order before removal. The final status of the flagged names is not established in the material reviewed. Nor is there evidence linking the revision to the November 2025 by-election, won by Congress’s V. Naveen Yadav over BRS’s Maganti Sunitha by 24,729 votes.
The Congress government’s election machinery now has a very ordinary task: publish the constituency-level data, explain the mismatch in the reported category totals, and show how many names were restored. Democracy should not require forensic accounting just to find one’s own name.