Hyderabad, June 27 -- Residents of several villages in Kumaram Bheem Asifabad district on Friday, June 26, rejected enumeration forms being distributed as part of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Telangana, demanding resolution of a long-pending inter-state border dispute before participating in the exercise.

The SIR process has come to a halt in villages along the Telangana-Maharashtra border due to a dispute between residents of Asifabad and Chandrapur district in Maharashtra over which state controls villages in the Kerameri mandal.

Villagers are demanding that the district collectors of both Asifabad and Chandrapur intervene and settle the matter first.

The dispute at the heart of it

While residents of An...