Hyderabad: AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday told chief minister A Revanth Reddy and TPCC president B Mahesh Kumar Goud to take the ensuing special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls seriously and ensure that eligible voters are retained on the electoral list.CM Revanth, deputy CM Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka, AICC leader Meenakshi Natarajan and Mahesh Goud met him at a star hotel in Shamshabad. Kharge arrived at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport on Saturday night. As his flight to Gulbarga was at 9 am on Sunday, he had stayed in the star hotel for the night.He was received by govt advisor (protocol) Harkar Venugopal and deputy CM Bhatti. Later, irrigation minister N Uttam Kumar Reddy and other ministers also paid a courtesy visit to Kharge in the hotel.Kharge advised the CM, deputy CM, Meenakshi Natarajan and Mahesh Goud to ensure that large scale deletion of voters does not take place in Telangana as it happened in Bihar and West Bengal.Mahesh Goud explained to the AICC president that polling booth level agents were being trained to monitor SIR exercise, and right from ministers to MPs, MLCs, MLAs, district, mandal, village-level presidents have been given responsibility to monitor the SIR in both assembly and parliamentary constituencies and ensure genuine voters were retained on the voter rolls.CM Revanth had a one-on-one meeting with Kharge. The CMO said he discussed political developments and govt programmes being implemented in Telangana.A senior Congress leader told TOI that Kharge had said that the party leadership in New Delhi had received positive reports of the two-and-a-half years of Revanth-led Congress govt in Telangana.
