Election Commission, Union government should explain why lakhs of eligible voters removed from electoral rolls in Kerala: LDF

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The Left Democratic Front (LDF) has said that the Union authorities and the Election Commission of India (EC) owed voters an mentation astir however lakhs of them were disenfranchised aft the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls successful Kerala. 

LDF convener T.P. Ramakrishnan told a property league that thousands of “ineligible persons,” including those from extracurricular Kerala and of suspicious identity, had crept into the rolls. He said the LDF would instrumentality up the origin of voters struck disconnected the electoral rolls astatine the State and nationalist levels and was besides mulling ineligible options. 

Mr. Ramakrishnan said the LDF was yet to sermon spot sharing. He said the divided successful the Indian National League (INL) posed immoderate unsocial difficulties for the LDF, which the conjugation would code soon. 

Visit to Sonia Gandhi’s residence

The LDF enactment gathering tried to crook the tables connected the Congress successful the Sabarimala golden theft scandal. Mr. Ramakrishnan said the Congress had nary wide reply connected however the 2 premier accused successful the offence were allowed into the not-easily-accessible high-security residence of Sonia Gandhi successful Delhi. “UDF convener Adoor Prakash and Anto Antony, MP, who accompanied the suspects are present blaming the Congress successful Karnataka for the fiasco,” helium said. 

Mr. Ramakrishnan said the LDF had nary lawsuit that Ms. Gandhi was someway complicit successful the crime. “But, the LDF seeks a wide nationalist mentation from the Congress successful the involvement of the Ayyappa devotees,” helium said. Mr. Ramakrishnan said the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) were connected the aforesaid leafage erstwhile it came to besmirching the probe by the peculiar probe squad (SIT) to whitewash the bigwigs accused successful the case, chiefly Sabarimala Tantri Kandararu Rajeevaru.  

The LDF condemened the UDF’s onslaught connected Health Minister Veena George’s authoritative residence and termed the mode of governmental protestation uncivic. 

Published - February 23, 2026 06:11 p.m. IST

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