Political parties complain of electoral roll discrepancies in Kochi

Reju Joseph Chammany, a nonmigratory of Kaloor South part successful Kochi Corporation, was near dealing with a unusual concern connected polling time connected Tuesday (December 9, 2025).

While his deceased parent was recovered to beryllium successful the electoral rolls, his 24-year-old younger son’s sanction was missing contempt holding a elector ID card. Out of the 4 household members, helium unsocial did not person the elector slip, leaving Mr. Chammany to connection section politicians to verify what had gone wrong.

However, the youngster had his sanction successful the electoral rolls for the Assembly and Parliamentary elections. “Not including genuine voters portion retaining the dead, frankincense leaving country for bogus voting, is improper,” helium said.

Actor Mammootty’s sanction was besides recovered missing from the elector list, portion his wife’s sanction was present. Before delimitation, helium had his ballot successful the Girinagar part but has since been shifted to Ponnurunni, said Antony Painumthara, councillor from the Elamkulam part successful the past council.

The incidental was not an exception, arsenic governmental activists complained of wide discrepancies successful the electoral rolls revised pursuing delimitation. “There were galore problems. For instance, members from the aforesaid household were recovered to person their votes successful antithetic divisions. Then determination was the contented of immoderate members from the aforesaid household having their names successful the electoral rolls portion others had their names missing. Also, names of the dormant were retained successful the electoral rolls portion those of the surviving were missing. Neither were the missing names included successful the database of deletions,” said M. G. Aristotle, the UDF parliamentary enactment caput successful the past assembly and campaigner from the Kaloor South division.

He wondered whether the discrepancies were clerical mistakes connected the portion of officials portion entering information during the mentation of the electoral rolls. Mr. Aristotle, however, said it was improbable that the omissions were by plan to favour 1 side, since some fronts faced the problem.

Need for azygous electoral rolls

M. Anilkumar, outgoing Mayor and wide convenor of the Left Democratic Front’s predetermination committee for the Corporation, felt that a mix-up of location numbers could beryllium 1 of the reasons. The problem, helium said, could beryllium resolved by doing distant with the signifier of having abstracted electoral rolls for section assemblage elections and for Assembly and Parliamentary elections.

However, K. S. Shaiju, Bharatiya Janata Party’s territory president, attributed the discrepancies successful the electoral rolls to a ploy to favour the ruling party. “We person been raising this contented from the precise outset. Electoral rolls person been prepared successful a haphazard mode pursuing the database fixed from the CPI(M) office. In fact, a akin plan tin beryllium seen successful each section bodies wherever the ruling parties dictated the mentation of electoral rolls, and arsenic a result, it has affected some fronts,” helium said.