A letter by the then chief electoral officer (CEO), Bhanwar Lal, to ECI secretary on August 8, 2015, states: ‘The door-to-door verification has not been conducted properly in Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) Limits.”
Swecha, an organisation working on deletion of voters, said that several voters found their names missing from electoral rolls during the 2018 Telangana Assembly election and the same is likely to happen in the Lok Sabha polls in the next few months.
Bhanwar Lal, in the letter obtained through RTI, pointed out: ‘There are many complaints stating that the booth-level officers have not visited their houses in GHMC. There are no complaints in other districts of Telangana except in GHMC.” Bhanwar Lal also said that CM K Chandrasekhar Rao had called him up and enquired about poor linking and verification in GHMC limits in July 2015.