Hyderabad, Feb. 5 -- A supervisor of booth-level officers (BLO) on Thursday clarified who can be treated as a "relative" for family mapping during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Telangana, saying that voters can be linked through both maternal and paternal grandparents if their own names do not appear in the 2002 electoral list.

The clarification comes as Telangana prepares for the SIR exercise to update voter rolls across the state.

Speaking to Siasat.com, the supervisor, Muneer from the Bahadurpura Assembly, said that BLOs have started the linking and mapping process. If a voter's name appears in the 2002 list, the linking is straightforward. Those whose names do not feature are being asked to connect thems...