Amit Shah scheduled for Hyderabad BJP march on November 2

Union Home Minister Amit Shah is scheduled to join a Telangana BJP padyatra in Hyderabad on November 2, part of the party’s counter-campaign over electoral-roll revisions. The march is planned for the day after a Congress rally against alleged vote theft in Delhi on November 1. Telangana BJP president N Ramchander Rao announced Shah’s participation and said the march would be held under the theme “Loktantra Bachao Arajakta Hatao,” translated by the party as “Save Democracy, End Anarchy.” The BJP has described the marches as a response to opposition claims about the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. Rao accused Congress of spreading a false account of the revision and said genuine voters whose names had been removed could seek their inclusion again. He challenged Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy to visit his native village, Kondareddypalle, with him to examine voter removals, and asked Congress ministers in the state to identify at least 10 affected voters. In defending the roll revision, Rao addressed an opposition allegation that 13 crore voter names had been removed. He claimed the figure included 2.8 crore people who had died, three crore who were...