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Expressing interest implicit reports that 25 lakh radical successful Kerala could beryllium excluded from the draught electoral rotation pursuing the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan connected Friday (December 19, 2025) asked the Election Commission of India (EC) to “re-examine the SIR process successful the State and debar undue haste.”
Rather than excluding voters from the rotation connected method grounds, including each eligible citizens by absorbing the values of ideology should beryllium the ground of the electoral rotation revision, Mr. Vijayan said successful a strongly-worded statement.
“There is simply a interest that large-scale exclusion from the elector rotation is happening nether the ‘others’ class successful summation to deceased, permanently shifted, duplicated registration and untraceable categories of voters. Even the EC is not wide arsenic to who the ‘Others’ are. There is nary uncertainty that the database nether mentation is filled with inaccuracies. The close to ballot is not thing that should beryllium revoked connected method grounds. It is simply a close that should beryllium ensured to big citizens successful a antiauthoritarian society. Its denial is tantamount to destroying the foundations of democracy,” Mr. Vijayan said.
Mr. Vijayan blamed the “undue haste” shown by the EC to undertake the revision during the section assemblage predetermination play successful Kerala for the existent situation. Voter rotation revision is an workout that calls for semipermanent readying and consultations, helium pointed out. He demanded the EC to guarantee that each eligible voters entered successful the rolls aft the summary revision successful September 2025 find a spot successful the SIR rolls.
The Chief Minister’s comments person travel a time aft the enumeration signifier of the SIR ended successful Kerala. As per the information released by Chief Electoral Officer (Kerala) Rathan U. Kelkar, the fig of ‘Uncollectable forms’ (absent, shifted, dormant and untraceable voters) stood astatine 24.81 lakh arsenic connected Thursday. This includes 6.49 lakh deceased voters, 6.89 lakh untraceable voters, 8.21 lakh shifted voters, 1.34 lakh duplicated names and 1.86 lakh successful the ‘others’ category.
Mr. Vijayan observed that a concern has emerged wherever radical who were beneath 18 years of property during the erstwhile SIR successful 2002 are being asked to beryllium their relationships. Available information amusement that, connected an average, the fig of ineligible radical travel to astir 2 lakh per district, helium said. He further criticised the EC for implementing the workout without ensuring capable transparency.
The Chief Minister said that the State authorities would follow each indispensable measures to guarantee that each eligible citizens find a spot successful the list. The authorities moved the Supreme Court arsenic portion of this commitment. Taking a superior presumption of the concerns raised by the State government, the Court excessively has instructed that they should beryllium addressed, helium said.
