Hyderabad, May 26 -- Telangana Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president N Ramchander Rao on Tuesday, May 26, defended the Election Commission of India's (ECI) Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, saying the exercise had no political motives behind it.

Speaking to news agency ANI, Rao said the SIR would be conducted in Telangana along the same lines as in West Bengal and other states, with the stated aim of identifying and removing fake voters and illegal immigrants from the rolls.

"The primary focus will be to eliminate discrepancies in the voter lists - whether it concerns wrong names, dead voters or voters who have moved elsewhere," he said.

Rao was also addressing party workers at the BJP office in Kukatpally, where he...