Hyderabad wedding turns unlikely stage for SIR protest

The anger over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls found an unusual outlet at a wedding in Hyderabad’s Chandrayangutta area on October 10. Talha Kaseri, a former GHMC ward member representing the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM), turned his protest into a song at his cousin’s wedding, with a marfa band providing the rhythm.

“SIR ko barkhast karo. Gyanesh Kumar murdabad (Scrap the SIR; down with Gyanesh Kumar),” he sang, weaving slogans against the electoral roll revision and the Chief Election Commissioner into the wedding performance.