5.41L voters deleted from electoral roll of Hyderabad since ’23
No. of valid voters in 15 constituencies of district stands at over 45.7 lakh currently, 33,000 higher than number of voters in November last year
In an exercise to sanitise electoral rolls, the Hyderabad district’s election authorities have eected a large number of deletions from the lists.
Since the Assembly elections last year, more than 1.67 lakh voters have been deleted from the rolls, as per information obtained from the civic body.
Currently, the number of valid voters in all the 15 constituencies of Hyderabad district stands at over 45.7 lakh, which is over 33,000 higher than the number of voters in November last year, when the elections were held. The elector-population ratio for Parliamentary elections was pegged at 75.3%, which is still much higher than the average electorpopulation ratio for the country, recorded at 68%.
The number would have been even higher if not for the deletions this time. As per information available, the number of electors marked as Absent, Shifted and Dead (ASD) at the time of Assembly elections was 1,09,117. The ASD list is usually prepared with information received after preparation of the nal electoral rolls, hence not incorporated therein. The information was veried during the Special Summary Revision of Electoral Rolls in January this year, and deletions were eected accordingly.
Highest in Nampally
The highest number of deletions were in Nampally Assembly constituency at 21,407, of which 15,963 were marked as shifted voters, 2,843 as dead and 2,601 as duplicate voters. This is way less than the actual number of voters in the ASD list, at a whopping 62,000, largely at the behest of the Congress contestant, Mohammed Feroz Khan. In all other constituencies, the actual deletions were way higher than those mentioned in the ASD list. Jubilee Hills followed Nampally with 21,222 deletions, of which 16,658 were shifted voters, 3,754 duplicate voters and 810 were deceased voters.
Karwan had 20,722 deleted voters, of whom 12,527 shifted homes, 4,827 were duplicate, and 3,368 were deceased.
The election authorities informed that since January 2023, a total 5,41,259 names were removed from electoral rolls, of which 47,141 were deceased, 4,39,801 shifted homes, and 54,259 were duplicate voters. All the deletions were done as per procedure duly collecting Form-7 and Form-8 as per the standard operating procedure prescribed by the Election Commission of India, they said.
Further, during the purication of electoral rolls, many voters had a nonstandard house number on rolls. Hence a drive was taken up to identify such voters and do the corrections. Accordingly, a total of 1,81,405 voters with nonstandard house numbers were identied and corrections have been made.