India, June 4 -- AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Wednesday claimed that the SIR of electoral rolls will be used to create a permanent class of excluded Indians.

He also said that the right to vote is the poor's only weapon against the powerful. In a post on X, the Hyderabad Lok Sabha member alleged that the Central Government first carried out a document-driven Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral roll that deleted nearly 6.5 crore names from electoral rolls across 13 States and UTs. Now it wants a committee to study those very exclusions and build a permanent system for the identification, detention, and deportation of illegal immigrants.

He further charged that available data show that most of those excluded by SIR are Mu...