Archive · 18 Aug 2026
Congress Plans House-to-House Survey to Protect Genuine Voters in Telangana
The Congress party in Telangana wants to make sure that people who are allowed to vote are not removed from the voter list by mistake.
They plan to go door to door in every polling booth area to check on voters.
Some voters were put in a special list called ASDD, which means absent, shifted, deceased, or duplicate.
Congress wants to find out if putting these voters in that list was fair and correct.
The Election Commission has proposed removing 73 lakh voters from the draft list out of 3.38 crore voters in the state.
Congress thinks some of those voters are genuine and should keep their right to vote.
A leader named Sachin Sawant said the BJP is trying to remove votes of poor people, women, and minority groups.
He also said the BJP is using this process to win elections unfairly.
Congress says it will raise objections after the Election Commission publishes the draft list.
The party says it will collect its own data instead of relying on the Election Commission's information.
The Congress party will conduct a house-to-house survey across all polling booths in Telangana as part of the SIR's second phase.
The survey will assess whether voters listed as anomalies or ASDD (absent, shifted, deceased, duplicate) are correctly categorized.
Congress is studying the Election Commission's proposal to remove 73 lakh voters from draft rolls out of 3.38 crore total voters in the state.
AICC in-charge Sachin Sawant accused the BJP of targeting SC, ST, minority, poor, and women voters by meddling with SIR.
Sawant claimed the BRS and BJP are colluding on SIR in Telangana and questioned why BRS was not active on the issue.
- Who
- The Congress party, led by AICC in-charge Sachin Sawant
- What
- A house-to-house survey across all polling booths to verify voters listed as anomalies or ASDD (absent, shifted, deceased, duplicate) in the electoral rolls
- When
- Announced on Monday; the survey will begin after the Election Commission issues notices to voters
- Where
- Telangana state, India; announced in Utnoor
- Why
- To protect genuine voters from being removed from the draft electoral rolls under the SIR process
- Party
- Congress
- Survey scope
- All polling booths in Telangana
- Focus
- Voters listed as anomalies or ASDD (absent, shifted, deceased, duplicate)
- Voters proposed for removal
- 73 lakh
- Total voters in state
- 3.38 crore
- Announced by
- Sachin Sawant, AICC in-charge for Telangana
- Announcement location
- Utnoor
- Process
- SIR second phase