Hyderabad: The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) president Asaduddin Owaisi on Friday urged voters to treat the upcoming Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls as a “life and death” issue and asked them to cooperate fully with Booth Level Officers (BLOs) during verification.
Addressing an Eid Milap event, Owaisi said the SIR exercise in Telangana will begin from June 25 and explained that the BLOs will either hand over the enumerator form at voters’ residences or give it directly to them.
“Because this is a meeting of the office-bearers of Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM), it is not a general public gathering. It is my request to all of you that, as you know, the SIR is going to start from June 25. When the SIR begins on June 25th, the BLOs will visit various voters’ houses with an enumerator form and will either leave the form at the voter’s house or hand it over directly to them,” Owaisi said.
Owaisi asked voters who cannot read to get the form checked by Majlis workers deployed as Booth Level Agents (BLA) or by any trusted person.”Utilising the facilities provided by the Election Commission, Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen has appointed its party members and responsible workers as BLAs (Booth Level Agents). I am appealing to all voters regarding the SIR starting in Telangana on June 25, I urge you all to take this very seriously, as it is a highly sensitive issue. I am not saying this to stir up emotions or to scare you, but it is certainly a matter of life and death for us,” he said.
He added that the party had appointed BLAs and trained them, and the same team would continue working through the revision process.
“When the BLO comes and gives you the form, please read it. If you do not know how to read, then show it to the responsible members of the Majlis who are serving as BLAs, or to someone you know and trust. Check whether the [voter] mapping has been done correctly or not. Correct mapping is essential because if the mapping is right, your name will appear in the upcoming draft list,” he added.
Calling it a collective responsibility, the Hyderabad MP said Majlis had been working on the issue for the last 1.5 months. “It is the responsibility of all of us. For the last one and a half months, no other political party in the entire country has worked on the SIR the way Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen has worked. We have also made an app for this,” Owaisi said.
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