Owaisi demands further extension of SIR deadline

All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) President Asaduddin Owaisi. | Photo credit: PTI

Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi on Tuesday termed the extension of the Special Intensive Review (SIR) deadline till November 9 as unreasonable and demanded that it be extended by another four weeks.

Mr. Owaisi, president of the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen, visited the hearing sites in Karwan Assembly constituency and said the further extension would give more time to the large number of people who had received notices to respond.

“I have seen the work done here and how many people have been given notices. There are 59,470 anomalies in the constituency. The number of uncharted cases is 40,750. A total of 1,00,223 notices have been issued to people,” he said.

Mr Owaisi also expressed concern over the electoral rolls showing that some voters had “moved”, saying several of them continued to live at the same address. He also pointed to cases where voters were labeled as dead even though they were alive.

Published – 8 Sep 2026 19:48 IST