Telangana SIR: 92.87 lakh notices, final tally pending
Hyderabad accounts for 12.53 lakh notices and 2,066 reported deletions. The missing record is who was restored, rejected or finally left out.
The paperwork is counted. The final tally is still pending.
Telangana’s Special Intensive Revision has produced a mountain of intermediate numbers and still withheld the one that matters most: how many eligible voters were finally left out. The reported data includes 92,87,577 notices statewide, with 12,53,586 in Hyderabad. The city also recorded 6,335 Form 7 applications and 2,066 reported deletions. The paperwork is arriving. The accountability is taking the scenic route.
The figures were reported from data released by the Telangana Chief Electoral Officer. Hyderabad’s reported numbers also include 1,94,204 Form 6 applications, 1,44,800 Form 8 applications and 84,972 Form 8 entries updated. Statewide, more than 10.24 lakh applications under Forms 6, 6A, 7 and 8 had reportedly been filed by October 9. These are reported CEO figures; the underlying official dataset was not available for independent verification.
The scale was visible even earlier. In June, the CEO said Telangana had about 3.38 crore registered voters, around 2.38 crore mapped against 2002 electoral data, 89.88 lakh electors flagged with anomalies and 99.64 lakh still unmapped. The ECI says SIR must be conducted with “complete transparency and full participation of political parties”. Its published schedule set October 1 for the final roll, while later reporting put the date at November 9. The official revised order has not been located in the material reviewed here.
That gap is now the political story. The BJP is calling the criticism a “false narrative” and is planning an Amit Shah-led Hyderabad programme on November 2. Congress and opposition campaigners are presenting SIR as a threat to legitimate voters. Both sides are campaigning ahead of a record that is still incomplete. The decisive figures — objections accepted or rejected, names restored after hearings, and eligible voters excluded from the final roll — remain unavailable in one authoritative public account. The Congress government in Telangana cannot outsource electoral transparency to party slogans, and the ECI cannot call a process participatory while leaving its final arithmetic scattered across reports.