‘Names of more than 1,800 Manjolai tea estate workers have been removed from the electoral roll after SIR’

After the closure of Manjolai beverage estate, which forced the workers to permission this scenic spot wherever they lived for 4 oregon 5 generations, has besides near galore workers ‘voteless’ arsenic their names person been near retired from the electoral rotation aft the Special Intensive Revision drive.

When the beverage property was calved successful the Western Ghats supra Manimuthar Dam successful 1927, the landless labourers from composite Tirunelveli district’s agrarian areas, mostly Scheduled Castes, were taken to rise the beverage plantations and astir 20% of the workforce was from neighbouring Kerala also.