SIR will create permanent class of excluded citizens: Owaisi

Key points

• Hyderabad parliamentarian Asaduddin Owaisi on Wednesday criticised the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) and accused the Union government of creating a ‘permanent class of excluded Indians’ by means of this exercise.
• Taking to X, Mr. Owaisi, who is the president of the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen, maintained that the SIR exercise has led to deletion of nearly 6.5 crore names from electoral rolls across 13 States and Union Territories.
• The Union Government first carried out a document-driven SIR that deleted nearly 6.5 crore names from electoral rolls across 13 States and UTs.
• Now it wants a committee to study those very exclusions and build a permanent system for the identification, detention, and deportation…
• — Asaduddin Owaisi (@asadowaisi) June 3, 2026 Describing the right to vote as ‘the poor’s only weapon against the powerful’, Mr. Owaisi said disenfranchisement would leave vulnerable communities exposed to arbitrary government action.