Election Commission Analytica: Irregularities of voter deletions in Telangana explained

The Election Commission of India has launched the National Electoral Rolls Purification and Authentication Programme in 2015 to streamline electoral rolls by detecting anomalies. This programme of linking Aadhaar with voter id has been piloted in the districts of Nizamabad and Hyderabad in 2014 and expanded to rest of the country. During the implementation of this programme 30 lakh voters have been deleted part of voter rolls. This has resulted in several voters unable to exercise their vote on the day of Telangana elections in 2018. The Election Commission and Chief Electoral Officer of Telangana have been very silent on these irregularities and have taken the voters of Telangana for a ride.

The session will discuss this entire process of what has transpired during NERP-AP and explain the important details of usage of technology and data in elections. Data has already effected the Telangana elections and the Election Commission of India is the cause of it.

Srinivas Kodali: Srinivas is a civil engineer working on cities and digital technologies, he is a petitioner against Election Commission in Hyderabad High court on the matter of voter deletions in Telangana.