Nearly 15 Lac Muslim excluded from Telangana voter list

The Special Intensive Rectification (SIR) process conducted by the Election Commission of India has revealed that a large number of names of voters have been omitted from the electoral rolls in Telangana. A special analysis report published by English media outlet Siasat.com has claimed that about 20.3 percent of the proposed omitted voters list in Telangana are of Muslim names. In this, a total of about 1.49 lac Muslim voters have been included in the ‘Absent, Transferred, Dead and Duplicate’ (ASDD) category and kept in the exclusion list.

The report said that more than half of the total 1.5 million Muslim names that were excluded (about 7.77 lac) are in Hyderabad district alone. In Hyderabad, 40 out of every 100 excluded voters are Muslims. A total of 73.39 lakh voters have been included in the ASDD list across 33 districts of Telangana, which is about 21.7 percent of the state’s 2015 voter list.

Of the total number of voters who were excluded, about 45.18 lac or 61.6 percent were identified as permanently ‘transferred’. In addition, 16.7% were identified as ‘absent’, 12.6% as ‘deceased’ and 9.1% as ‘dual names’. Outside Hyderabad, the districts of Nizamabad, Nirmal and Adilabad have the highest rate of Muslim name cancellation. In Nizamabad, 32 percent of the voters excluded, in Nirmal 25.8 percent and in Adilabad 23.5 percent of the names of the excluded voters are from the Muslim community.

The majority of the excluded voters are of working age. Citizens aged 31 to 59 years make up about three-quarters of the total excluded list. Of these, those aged 35 to 39 years account for the largest number (11.37 lac). As per the law, there is no mention of religion in the voter list of India.

Therefore, this information was collected through artificial intelligence (AI) and name analysis technology. While the sample was verified by humans in Hyderabad district, it was analyzed by converting the Telugu names to English in the other 32 districts. As a result, the report admitted that there may be a margin of error of 3.3 percent in these results.