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A surname-token analysis showed that the most frequently occurring surname tokens included “Begum”, “Beguma”, “Kumar”, “Khan”, “Begam”, “Sultana”, “Ali”, “Ravu”, “Reddi” and “Lakshmi”. | Photo Credit: Representational photo

Women accounted for 47.8% of the 19,41,444 electors deleted in Hyderabad in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise. The highest shares of women among deleted electors were recorded in five Assembly segments of the Hyderabad parliamentary constituency.

A preliminary analysis of official SIR data from 15 Assembly constituencies by the SABAR Institute found that Bahadurpura, Chandrayangutta, Karwan, Yakutpura and Malakpet recorded the highest shares of women among deleted electors. The sixth constituency, Nampally, is part of the Secunderabad Lok Sabha constituency. All six are represented by the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM).

In Bahadurpura, 62,885 women were among the 1,21,350 electors deleted, accounting for 51.8%. Chandrayangutta recorded 76,099 women among 1,48,869 deletions, or 51.1%. In Karwan, 69,391 of the 1,41,766 electors deleted were women, accounting for 48.9%. In Yakutpura, women made for 75,319 of the 1,54,982 deletions, or 48.6%, while Malakpet recorded 71,644 women among 1,47,799 deletions, or 48.5%. In Nampally, 65,212 of the 1,37,126 electors removed were women, accounting for 47.6%.

“Women are 47.8% of all deletions, and their spread across the four recorded reasons is close to men’s. They are 50.2% of removals entered as ‘Untraceable/Absent’, a little above their overall share, and 40.9% of those entered as ‘Death’, well below it. Read the other way, 6.9% of deleted women are recorded as deaths against 9.1% of deleted men, which follows male mortality rather than anything about the revision, while permanent shifting accounts for 69.6% and 69.0%, respectively, effectively the same,” the report said.

Jubilee Hills recorded the highest number of deletions overall at 1,79,510, followed by Yakutpura with 1,54,982, Chandrayangutta with 1,48,869, Malakpet with 1,47,799, Karwan with 1,41,766 and Musheerabad with 1,40,070. Nampally followed with 1,37,126 deletions.

According to the report, Muslim-classified electors accounted for 40.7% of the 19,41,444 deletions recorded across Hyderabad. The share of Muslim-classified names among the deletions was 85.9% in Bahadurpura, 72.4% in Chandrayangutta and 62.4% in Charminar. This represents the share of Muslim-classified names among the deletions, and not a religion-wise deletion rate.

“The ASD deletion is very high in Telangana. Nearly two out of five voters has been deleted. In some booths, there is a deletion of over 1,000, which is very striking. On an average around 500 votes have been deleted in each booth, and as you know booths themselves are small units. Those who have voted in the last elections too have been deleted, which is very high. Most interestingly, a vast majority of non-dead voters have been deleted as compared to about 8.2% removals which are recorded as dead,” Sabir Ahamed, lead researcher at the SABAR Institute, told The Hindu.

In Malakpet and Yakutpura, the number of elector names removed was higher than the total number of votes cast, researchers Ashin Chakraborty and Souptik Halder added.

A surname-token analysis showed that the most frequently occurring surname tokens included “Begum”, “Beguma”, “Kumar”, “Khan”, “Begam”, “Sultana”, “Ali”, “Ravu”, “Reddi” and “Lakshmi”.

“The share ranges from 12.1% in Secunderabad Cantonment to 85.9% in Bahadurpura, a spread that tracks the residential geography of the city, the Old City constituencies sitting at one end and the Secunderabad and western constituencies at the other,” the report stated.

Among Muslim-classified electors listed for deletion, 19.8% were marked 'Untraceable/Absent', compared with 16% among non-Muslims. Similarly, 7.6% of Muslim deletions were marked as enrolled elsewhere, against 3.4% among non-Muslims. The report said the difference was also visible across constituencies, particularly in the composition of cases marked “Untraceable/Absent”.

“We cannot establish that any community has been deliberately targeted,” Mr. Ahamed said, adding that the Election Commission of India does not maintain religion-wise data on electors. The researchers analysed names in the deletion lists and arrived at a possible religious classification based on their methodology.

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