Plea in Hyderabad High Court questions fall in voter numbers

Hyderabad: A PIL has been filed in Hyderabad High Court requesting the Election Commission to make public its algorithm that led to the alleged deletion of names of 27 lakh voters in Telangana state and 19 lakh in Andhra Pradesh in 2015.

The petitioner, city resident Srinivas Kodali, said that in order to mislead the citizens, the EC and governments had been stating that the large number of deletions were on account of voters shifting to AP after state.

“If that were to be the case, there ought to have been an increase of voters in one of the either two states, however, the number of voters has decreased in both the states,” he pointed out.