Hyderabad, June 25 -- AIMIM Chief Asaduddin Owaisi challenged the Election Commission's (EC) Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise currently underway in Telangana, labelling the existing requirements for verifying voter credentials as overly burdensome and exclusionary.

Addressing a press conference on Thursday, the Hyderabad MP highlighted significant hurdles facing citizens whose names are missing from the 2002 electoral rolls.

According to Owaisi, the EC's requirement to submit one of 12 designated documents is unrealistic, as he contends four of those documents are either non-existent or irrelevant to the state's administrative framework.

He noted that the list includes documents like the National Register of Citizens (NRC), wh...