Mysore/Mysuru, May 26 -- Questioning the 'needless' fears expressed by Congress leaders over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Karnataka, JD(S) State Working President and former Minister S.R. Mahesh wondered why the Congress was "unduly worried" about the exercise.

Addressing a press meet at a private hotel in the city this morning, Mahesh said Congress leaders were unnecessarily creating concerns over the SIR process.

"The SIR exercise is meant to weed out ineligible voters from the electoral rolls. The Election Commission has repeatedly clarified that no eligible voter will be removed from the rolls," he said.

Claiming that nearly 18,000 voters in the K.R. Nagar Assembly segment alone were found to be inelig...