Women Lead Voter Deletions in Hyderabad's Old City Constituencies

A preliminary analysis of official data from Hyderabad's ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls has found that women constitute 47.8% of the 19,41,444 electors deleted across the city. The highest shares of women among deleted electors were recorded in five Assembly constituencies of the Hyderabad parliamentary constituency: Bahadurpura, Chandrayangutta, Karwan, Yakutpura and Malakpet. Nampally, part of the Secunderabad Lok Sabha constituency, also showed a high share. All six constituencies are represented by the AIMIM.

In Bahadurpura, women made up 51.8% of the 1,21,350 deletions, while Chandrayangutta recorded 51.1% women among 1,48,869 deletions. Karwan saw 48.9% women among 1,41,766 deletions, Yakutpura 48.6% among 1,54,982, and Malakpet 48.5% among 1,47,799. Nampally had 47.6% women among 1,37,126 deletions.

The report by the SABAR Institute notes that women's share across the four recorded reasons for deletion is close to men's. Women are 50.2% of removals marked 'Untraceable/Absent', slightly above their overall share, but only 40.9% of those recorded as 'Death'. Among deleted women, 6.9% are recorded as deaths against 9.1% of deleted men, a gap attributed to male mortality patterns. Permanent shifting accounts for 69.6% of women's deletions and 69.0% of men's.

Jubilee Hills recorded the highest number of deletions overall at 1,79,510, followed by Yakutpura, Chandrayangutta, Malakpet, Karwan, Musheerabad and Nampally.

The analysis also found that Muslim-classified electors account for 40.7% of all deletions in Hyderabad. Their share among deletions is 85.9% in Bahadurpura, 72.4% in Chandrayangutta and 62.4% in Charminar. This reflects the residential geography of the city, with Old City constituencies at one end and Secunderabad and western constituencies at the other.

Lead researcher Sabir Ahamed said the deletion rate is very high in Telangana, with nearly two out of five voters deleted. In some booths, deletions exceed 1,000, and on average around 500 votes have been deleted per booth. Many who voted in the last elections have also been deleted. A vast majority of non-dead voters have been deleted compared to about 8.2% recorded as dead.

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

A surname-token analysis showed frequent tokens such as 'Begum', 'Kumar', 'Khan', 'Sultana', 'Ali', 'Ravu', 'Reddi' and 'Lakshmi'. Among Muslim-classified electors listed for deletion, 19.8% were marked 'Untraceable/Absent' against 16% among non-Muslims, and 7.6% were marked as enrolled elsewhere against 3.4% among non-Muslims.

Mr. Ahamed said the researchers cannot establish that any community has been deliberately targeted, as the Election Commission does not maintain religion-wise data. The classification was based on name analysis.