‘Several duplicate voters still on draft rolls’

HyderabadThe Congress has alleged that despite the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise seeking to delete duplicate voters, several duplicate voters are still on the draft rolls. And, the party has raised concerns over this.District Congress Committee (DCC) president Syed Khalid Saifullah said that his office has found scores of duplicate voters in Yakutpura constituency. He demanded that this be looked into immediately.“The very idea of the SIR is to remove duplicate voters. After going through the draft rolls, I have found that there are several electors who have figured twice. This is concerning,” Mr. Saifullah told The Hindu, adding that the list that they compiled has side-by-side electoral records identified by the party as possible duplicate cases.“Many entries carry identical