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The Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] connected Friday (March 6, 2026) expressed beardown doubts implicit the precocious concluded Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of elector rolls, alleging that the workout had resulted successful deletion of 19 lakh eligible voters from the database adjacent arsenic accommodating a ample fig of ineligible electors.
CPI(M) State secretariat subordinate M.V. Jayarajan cited the discrepancy betwixt the elector rolls prepared by the State Election Commission and the last rotation published by the Election Commission of India (ECI) pursuing the SIR to accent the party’s concerns. He said that, arsenic per the rolls utilized for the section assemblage elections, determination are 2.84 crore voters successful the State, portion the post-SIR database had lone 2.69 crore voters, including 4.24 lakh caller electors.
He was addressing the media present aft a gathering of representatives of governmental parties convened by Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar. He is successful the metropolis to instrumentality banal of the concern up of the announcement of the Assembly elections.
He said the Chief Electoral Officer of the State was yet to explicate the discrepancy. “The ECI had issued notices to 36.88 lakh voters to look for a hearing. How galore of them turned up for the proceeding and however galore cases were approved? It has not been made wide yet. Of them, 19.32 lakh, who had been included successful the no-mapping category, were required to nutrient records to beryllium citizenship. It should besides beryllium explained however galore of them took portion successful the proceeding and however galore were included successful the last rolls,” Mr. Jayarajan added.
The CPI(M) person alleged that 252 bogus voters were included successful 1 polling presumption successful the Thaliparamba constituency, and 32 specified cases were detected successful Kalamassery. He said that though the incidents were reported to predetermination officials, the issues had not been rectified yet. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), meanwhile, submitted a memorandum to the CEC demanding the rectification of faults successful the electoral rolls and the effectual usage of modern exertion for the just behaviour of elections.
The AAP said location numbers had been fixed successful bid successful the rolls, making it hard to hint voters and observe duplication. The enactment suggested that the numbers beryllium linked with the location numbers issued by section bodies.
The AAP besides projected an artificial intelligence-based strategy to show a candidate’s expenses and run materials, arsenic good arsenic a high-tech monitoring compartment to forestall the usage of deepfakes and fake messages.
