Hyderabad, June 24 -- Members of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) on Wednesday, June 24, submitted a representation to Telangana's Chief Electoral Officer C Sudharsan Reddy calling for the strict implementation of "One Person One Vote" and deletion of all duplicate votes during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.

BRS stated that having one person registered twice in the voter rolls violates Sections 17 and 18 of the Representation of the People Act, 1950, and can create serious administrative and logistical problems for the election machinery.

They said that duplicate votes assume particular significance in the case of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, as, after the bifurcation in 2014, many people shifted their residen...