Butta Ashwin Chandra 🇮🇳

Fear politics at play: Owaisi and AIMIM panic-mongering over the Special Intensive Revision (#SIR) of electoral rolls. @ECISVEEP This is not the first time such an exercise is happening — it is the 14th Special Intensive Revision in India. Yet, @asadowaisi and his @aimim_national party are creating a hateful narrative, claiming that the SIR is targeting one particular community’s votes. The current SIR aims to clean up the voter lists by removing dead voters, bogus entries, duplicates, and names of illegal migrants — while ensuring genuine Indian citizens are not affected. This smells of the same fear-mongering seen during the CAA (Citizenship Amendment Act) campaign, where baseless panic was spread to polarize voters and distract from governance failures. In Hyderabad’s GHMC (Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation), where AIMIM has held significant influence for years, Owaisi seems keen that the public does not ask tough questions about the party’s performance and delivery over the last five years. Helpdesks run by political parties and private organisations @TheSiasatDaily In every corner are setting up helpdesks in the name of assisting voters during the SIR. They are actively collecting sensitive voter details. Key question: Is these helpdesks lack proper security ? the collected data risks: Insecure storage (weak encryption, poor access controls) Unauthorized access by staff or third parties Accidental leaks, hacks, or deliberate misuse Commercial exploitation (selling marketing lists) Political profiling & micro-targeting This raises serious concerns under the Right to Privacy (protected under Article 21 of the Constitution). It also potentially violates provisions of the Information Technology Act, 2000 and the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (DPDP Act). The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that the Election Commission of India (ECI) holds voters’ data in trust. The ECI is required to maintain multiple layers of privacy protection to prevent data mining by third parties No other organisation — political party or private entity — has an unrestricted right to collect or harvest such sensitive voter data. The ECI and the courts must strictly regulate these helpdesks to prevent misuse and protect citizens’ privacy.. @harichandanaias @ECISVEEP @kishanreddybjp @N_RamchanderRao @KVishReddy @maheshreddy_bjp @amitmalviya @nvsubhash4bjp @TVG_BJP @amarhindu @krporeddy @GaneshKunde8 @SumiranKV