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Greater Hyderabad tops Telangana’s uncollectable voter forms
Greater Hyderabad accounts for 41.49 lakh, or nearly 59%, of Telangana's 70.85 lakh uncollectable enumeration forms in the special intensive revision, the Times of India reports. Hyderabad district alone has 18.45 lakh…
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Greater Hyderabad accounts for 41.49 lakh, or nearly 59%, of Telangana's 70.85 lakh uncollectable enumeration forms in the special intensive revision, the Times of India reports. Hyderabad district alone has 18.45 lakh uncollectable forms (38.96% of its electorate), followed by Rangareddy with 12.41 lakh (33.55%) and Medchal-Malkajgiri with 10.62 lakh (35.65%). The three districts hold about 33.7% of the state's electorate.
Sanathnagar has the highest uncollectable rate in Greater Hyderabad at 45.66%, while Bahadurpura has the lowest at 26.06%, still above the statewide 20.95%. Among the seven Old City constituencies, Chandrayangutta tops at 39.13%, with six seats above one-third. Anomaly rates remain lower, with Hyderabad at 14.08%, Rangareddy 15.07% and Medchal-Malkajgiri 10.94%. The report gives no reasons for the uncollectable status.
The Indian Opinion
The numbers expose an urban-rural divide the Election Commission cannot brush aside. Hyderabad's uncollectable rate is nearly double the state average, and it is no accident that the worst seats sit in fast-growing city pockets. Yet anomaly rates stay low, which suggests the problem is not fraud but movement, migration and sloppy updating. The commission should publish the reasons for each uncollectable form. Until it does, voters will suspect that some names were dropped for convenience, not error. How many of these forms will be corrected by the final revision deadline? That is the number to watch.
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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