Hans News Service Nellore

DeputyMayor Roop Kumar Yadav has refuted the YSRCP’s allegations that the district administration has adopted illegal procedures during Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, adding that YSRCP is making such allegations only to create confusion among people.

Addressing the media here on Friday, Roop Kumar advised YSRCP MLC Parvathareddy Chandrasekhar Reddy and party district president Kakani Govardhan Reddy to verify facts before making public statements.

He clarified that SIR process, being conducted from June 15 to July 14, is intended only for collection and digitisation of voter details and does not involve either deletion or addition of votes at this stage.

He said that more than 72 per cent of digitisation process was already completed in Nellore city Assembly constituency and remaining is under progress.

He challenged YSRCP leaders to prove whether even a single worker of their party was denied enumeration form during the exercise and claimed that in 47th Division, YSRCP leaders themselves assisting Booth Level Officers in filling out enumeration forms.

Responding to allegations of illegal sand mining involving Municipal Administration Minister P Narayana, Deputy Mayor Roopkumar dismissed the charges as completely false. He said it was the Minister, who made sand affordable for the poor by reducing the cost of a tractor-load of sand from Rs 4,000 to Rs 1,200.