Sircilla man found dead, note written on his SIR form names the Prime Minister

A 25-year-old man was found hanged at his home in Racharlagollapalli village, Yellareddypet mandal of Rajanna-Sircilla district, on Thursday morning. According to police and family accounts reported by multiple outlets, he had died the previous night.

The man, named in reports as Pitla Vamshi, worked as a painter. Police registered a case on the complaint of his father, Balaiah, and the body was sent to the Sircilla government hospital for a post-mortem examination.

What made a district death a state-level story is where the note was written. According to the reports, Vamshi wrote it on the back of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) enumeration form — the door-to-door electoral-roll form issued by a Booth Level Officer — and in it held Prime Minister Narendra Modi responsible for his death.

As reported by Namaste Telangana, the note said his death was caused not by his family but by the Prime Minister, and was signed off, in his words, "Yours, an Indian citizen, Vamshi Royal, Jai Hind, thank you government." It asked that his family not be blamed and that his last rites be carried out as per custom. Deccan Chronicle reported that the note was addressed to the police.

The contents above are the reported text of the note. Its authenticity and handwriting are yet to be confirmed — police have sent it for forensic analysis. Investigators have also cited an argument Vamshi is said to have had with his mother the previous night as a possible factor. No cause or motive has been established.

Several details remain unclear or contested. Reports differ on how far Vamshi had studied — Namaste Telangana says he dropped out in the first year of a degree over family finances, while Siasat reports he had studied up to intermediate. A claim, attributed to police by Deccan Chronicle, that he was addicted to alcohol appears in only one outlet. Crucially, no report establishes that Vamshi's own enrolment was affected by the SIR — no deletion, objection or rejected form is mentioned anywhere. The note's reference to the SIR and the Prime Minister is political; there is no reported evidence linking the exercise to his own voter record.

What the SIR is matters here. The Special Intensive Revision is the Election Commission's exercise to revise the electoral rolls, carried out house-to-house by BLOs, and it is politically contested in Telangana. The BRS has publicly pressed the EC to extend the schedule, and the BJP has accused the Congress state government of interfering in the process. That contest is why a form left on a table in Yellareddypet became a subject of political argument within hours.

That argument played out over the body itself. Thota Agayya, the BRS district president, called the death "outright a murder by the central government" — an allegation by a named politician, not a finding of the investigation, which remains open. BRS leaders displayed placards and protested against the Prime Minister as the body was moved after the post-mortem; police say permission for the protest had been refused. Deccan Chronicle reports that cases were registered against seven BRS leaders over the protest, that BJP leaders questioned the police for allegedly permitting it despite the refusal, and that a sub-inspector present at the spot was attached to police headquarters.

The police investigation has drawn no conclusion on why Vamshi died. The competing political claims around the death are exactly that — claims — and the forensic examination of the note has not been reported as complete.

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