New Delhi, July 15 -- The Telugu Desam Party (TDP), the Bhartiya Janata Party's second-largest ally in the National Democratic Alliance's has sought clarity on 'the scope" of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, underway in poll-bound Bihar, and likely to be replicated nationwide.

The TDP has said that the Election Commission of India's exercise should ideally be conducted "not within six months" of any major election and that it should be made clear that it is 'not related to citizenship verification.'

In a letter to Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar on July 15, by TDP parliamentary party leader Lavu Sri Krishna Devarayalu and signed by five other party leaders, the Andhra Pradesh's ruling party said that th...