Mysuru, June 26 -- State BJP General Secretary Preetham Gowda said that the BJP will have to face a major setback in future polls if the party takes lightly on the ongoing SIR (Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls) process being undertaken by the Election Commission of India in the State.

He was addressing party workers at the party's Mysuru division special meeting on SIR at a private hotel here yesterday.

Noting that the names of even the sitting Legislators and the names of Legislator aspirants too will get deleted in the electoral rolls if the SIR process is neglected, Preetham Gowda, also a former Hassan MLA, stressed on the need for party workers to take the ongoing SIR process seriously.

Maintaining that SIR will decide...