Hyderabad: As many as 73.39 lakh names, constituting 21.70% of total electorate, were deleted from the draft publication of electoral rolls in Telangana by the Election Commission on Monday. There were a total of 3.38 crore voters in the state when the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter lists began on June 25.The deleted names included 9.22 lakh (2.73%) deceased, 11.25 lakh absent and 45.18 lakh permanently shifted (16.99%, both put together), and 6.70 lakh (1.98%) enrolled at multiple places in electoral rolls. The draft publication was released at a press conference in Hyderabad, led by the Chief Electoral Officer C. Sudarshan Reddy, Additional Chief Electoral Officer Vasam Venkateswara Reddy and other senior officials of the state election commission. They are also available on Telangana Chief Electoral Officer’s website.They said that 2.64 crore enumeration forms, out of the total electorate of 3.38 crore, were digitised by the expiry of the deadline for the purpose on August 10. The balance 73.39 lakh forms which were “uncollectible” by the booth level officers (BLOs) represent the now deleted names.They also said the forms that were digitised contained 32 lakh voters who could not be mapped with their family members to the base year – 2002 – and another 60 lakh voters who were mapped had discrepancies in linking with the electoral rolls of 2002 data. Notices would be sent out to all the 92 lakh voters individually to answer queries of Election Returning Officers (EROs) after they published the lists with names. This phase will go on till October 15 and the final publication of lists will take place on October 19, they said.The 32 lakh voters who could not be mapped were those who did not fill in their details in the first section of the form pertaining to their entries in the rolls of 2002 SIR, or they may have omitted their parents details in the second section. The forms had three distinct sections: the first one for the electors details from 2002 SIR, the second for their relatives details for those who were minors in 2002, and the third for current details of the electors. The state CEO said that a total of 60 lakh logical discrepancies and anomalies were discovered from the forms digitised.The discrepancies were identified by 11 categories: 1) less than nine months gap between progeny 2) less than 15 years age gap between parent and progeny 3) greater than 50 years age gap between progeny and parent 4) less than 40 years age gap between elector and grandparent 5) different parent name between current enrollment and last SIR 6) mapped with different relative type between current enrolment and last roll (father/mother) 7) mapped with father in the current roll and husband in the last SIR 8) different father in current roll and last SIR in case of self 9) incorrect age difference between current and last SIR for self 10) submission of zero documents and 11) submission of only Aadhaar. The draft notification disclosed that the highest number of deletions were in Hyderabad at 19.41 lakh. Out of them, the deceased were 1.56 lakh, absent 2.99 lakh, permanently shifted 13.45 lakh, already enrolled 99,000 and others 40,605. Among Assembly constituencies in Hyderabad, the highest deletion was in Jubilee Hills at 1.79 lakh, followed by Malakpet at 1.47 lakh, Karwan at 1.41 lakh, Musheerabad at 1.40 lakh and the least was in Charminar at 94.000. Among the districts, the highest deletion was in Rangareddy (12.87 lakh) followed by Medchal-Malkajgiri (10.71 lakh). The least deletion was in Yadadri-Bhuvanagiri district (26,121).A senior official in the office of the CEO told The Wire that the high deletion of voters in the state was due to a lion’s share shifting to Andhra Pradesh after bifurcation of the erstwhile state in 2014.“About 42 lakh voters of Andhra Pradesh origin who had settled in and around Hyderabad had left for their native places,” he said.According to the data, in all, 45 lakh voters figured under the “permanently shifted” head of deletions. They included 19 lakh in Hyderabad, 12 lakh in Rangareddy and 10 lakh in Malkajgiri-Medchal. The latter two districts adjoined Hyderabad.