GHMC Commissioner D. Ronald Rose plays a crucial role as the Hyderabad District Election Officer (DEO) in the upcoming elections to the Telangana Legislative Assembly. He is tasked with the responsibility of conducting free and fair elections in the 15 Assembly constituencies having close to 4,000 polling stations and over 45 lakh voters in the district. Our correspondent Swathi Vadlamudi talks to him about the responsibilities and challenges on the way.
Q: Electoral rolls do not seem to be completely error-free. Information about deceased voters is streaming in late. How are you planning to rectify this?
RR: We have done a lot of exercise in minimising the errors in the electoral rolls, which, we feel will increase the voting percentage this time.
