SIR: KRMO flags higher voter deletions in Muslim-dominated constituencies

Bengaluru The Karnataka Rajya Muslim Okkoota (KRMO) has demanded an explanation from the Election Commission of India (ECI) over the deletion of names from electoral rolls during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), pointing to a higher deletion rate in constituencies represented by Muslim MLAs and a disproportionate share of Muslims among those classified as absent or duplicates and subsequently deleted. In a statement issued on Monday, the organisation said an analysis of booth-level data released by the ECI, carried out by political research consultancy Sankalp, showed that 27.59% of voters had been deleted across the 10 Assembly constituencies represented by Muslim MLAs in Karnataka.

This was higher than the State average of 19.45%. The 10 constituencies had a total of 9,62,359 Muslim voters in the 2025 electoral rolls, of whom 2,46,759, or 25.64%, were deleted during the revision.

Across 64 Muslim-dominated constituencies, more than 8.80 lakh Muslim voters were removed, the organisation said. Of the 15,15,088 voters deleted as absent across Karnataka, 2,58,770 were Muslims.