Five constituencies in Hyderabad’s Old City dominated by women: report

Women constituted 47.8% of the 19,41,444 voters delisted in Hyderabad under the ongoing Special Intensive Review (SIR) exercise. The highest proportions of women among the crossed out voters 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 proportions of women among the deleted voters. 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, among the 1,21,350 struck-off voters, 62,885 were women, representing 51.8%. Chandrayangutta recorded 76,099 females among 1,48,869 deletions, or 51.1%. In Karwan, 69,391 of the 1,41,766 struck-off voters were women, representing 48.9%. In Yakutpur, females made 75,319 out of 1,54,982 deletions, or 48.6%, while Malakpet recorded 71,644 females out of 1,47,799 deletions, or 48.5%. In Nampally, 65,212 of the 1,37,126 removed voters were women, representing 47.6%.

“Females account for 47.8% of all deletions and their distribution among the four recorded reasons is close to that of males. There are 50.2% of deletions entered as ‘Untraceable/Absent’, slightly more than their overall share, and 40.9% of those entered as ‘Death’, well below that. Read the other way around, which is deleted, 6.9% of males are recorded as deaths, males are recorded a 6.9% mortality rate rather than anything about revision, while permanent transfers account for 69.6% and 69.0%, essentially the same,” the report said.

Jubilee Hills recorded the highest number of deletions overall at 1,79,510, followed by Yakutpura at 1,54,982, Chandrayangutta at 1,48,869, Malakpet at 1,47,799, Karwan at 1,41,766 and Musheerabad at 1.70. Nampally followed with 1,37,126 deletions.

According to the report, voters classified as Muslims constituted 40.7% of the 19,41,444 deletions recorded in Hyderabad. The proportion of names withheld by Muslims among deletions was 85.9% in Bahadurpura, 72.4% in Chandrayangutta and 62.4% in Charminar. This represents the proportion of Muslim-classified names among those deleted, and not the rate of deletion by religion.

“SD deletion is very high in Telangana. Almost two out of five voters were deleted. In some booths more than 1,000 were deleted, which is very shocking. On an average, about 500 votes were deleted in each booth, and as you know, the booths themselves are small units. Those who voted in the last election, which is too high a majority, were deleted, most of them were very interesting. Voters were deleted. compared to about 8.2% of those discarded who are recorded as dead,” Sabir Ahamed, senior researcher at SABAR Institute, told The Hindu.

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

Surname-token analysis showed that the most frequently occurring surname tokens include “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 range that follows the residential geography of the city, Old City wards at one end and Secunderabad and Western wards at the other,” the report said.

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

“We cannot prove that any community was deliberately targeted,” Mr. Ahamed said, adding that the Election Commission of India does not keep religious data on voters. The researchers analyzed the names in the deletion lists and arrived at a possible religious classification based on their methodology.

Published – 01 Sep 2026 21:52 IST