Hyderabad, May 26 -- Telangana BJP President N Ramchander Rao on Tuesday asserted that the Special Revision Process (SIR) of electoral rolls in the state here has no "political overtones" but rather just a routine exercise by the Election Commission of India (ECI).

Speaking to ANI, Rao explained that the objective of the SIR is to refine the voter rolls by identifying and removing discrepancies, drawing a parallel to similar drives conducted in West Bengal and other states.

"Like in Bengal and other places, where the fake voters and illegal immigrants are there, they will be deleted. And what Bengal has done, or what the SIR has done, is detect, delete, and deport. So this is what a voter list has to see--whether the voter list contains...