Hyderabad, June 3 -- All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) president and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi has criticised the Union Government over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls and expressed concerns about the impact of the exercise on voters.

In a post shared on X, Owaisi claimed that a document-based SIR exercise had led to the deletion of nearly 6.5 crore names from electoral rolls across 13 States and Union Territories. He alleged that the government now plans to study these exclusions and create a permanent system for identifying, detaining, and deporting illegal immigrants.

SIR could exclude Indians from electoral rolls

According to Asaduddin Owaisi, the SIR process could result in the exclusion of...