Telangana: SIR: Complaints Of ‘Missing’ Enumeration Forms Galore
He lodged a complaint last week, and allege he had received no response and intends to go over to the GHMC circle office on Friday: Reports
HYDERABAD: Despite the poll authorities claiming that enumeration forms for the special intensive revision had been distributed to 96 per cent of voters across the state, complaints of missing forms galore. Some estimates suggest that about 4 per cent of voters in each booth have not received the forms. In places, people also complained of voter deletion citing ‘no record found’, when they checked online.
On Tuesday, complaints piled up at Chief Electoral Officer Sudharshan Reddy’s office regarding the ‘missing’ forms. “From among all my in-laws, my mother-in-law aged around 65 years failed to get the form, despite being a voter from the same residence — her own house —even before 2002,” said advocate D. Malik Basha, a resident of Aliabad, near Lal Darwaza.
He lodged a complaint last week, and alleged he had received no response and intends to go over to the GHMC circle office on Friday.
P. Rajesh Kumar, chairman of PCC’s Election Commission coordination committee, noted that the poll panel’s booth level officers were simply making note of the missing forms but did not clarify when they would be delivered, against the backdrop of the looming July 24 deadline.
“At least 35 to 40 voters who were in the list in 2025 have not got their forms in most of the polling booths,” Rajesh Kumar alleged. Four additional supplementary voters were released after the final one in 2025. “Most of the voters who were added in supplementary lists did not get the forms,” he said.
Separately, several voters were shocked to find their details missing online and the official website showing ‘no record found’. This section included voters whose details were available before the SIR mapping exercise was undertaken, and then found in June that the ECINET App was not showing the EPIC details.
A few pointed out that the voter name was found in the 2025 list, but unable to find it on the ECI website. Shaik Salauddin, founding president of the Telangana Gig and Platform Workers Union (TGPWU), during a recent event on the SIR alleged that his name was deleted from the electoral roll. He said that despite having voted in earlier elections his vote was deleted.
Meanwhile, S.Q. Masood who had recently approached the High Court alleging that his vote along with that of his entire family was deleted from the electoral roll, will be getting the enumeration form in view of the orders of the High Court. CEO Sudharshan Reddy in a letter stated that Masood could file Form-6 along with declaration, which was available with local BLO during the house-to-house visit. “Even those whose EPIC is found deleted can do the same,” he said.
Asked about the concerns, Sudharshan Reddy told Deccan Chronicle that it was the BLOs’ responsibility to deliver the forms to every household and collecting them after they were filled in. “In case voters fail to receive forms, BLOs will be held responsible. Forms will not be delivered in three categories — 'absent', 'shifted' or 'dead'.” He said. “In case voters do not receive forms, they may approach BLO supervisor or contact the ERO.”