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The Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] has accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of adding “bogus voters” successful droves successful constituencies successful which it perceives a winning accidental successful the upcoming 2026 Assembly elections.
CPI(M) State Committee subordinate and General Education Minister V. Sivankutty told a property league connected Sunday (December 21, 2025) that the BJP’s efforts to “replicate the 2024 Thrissur Lok Sabha predetermination fraud model” were centred connected 4 Assembly constituencies successful Thiruvananthapuram district: Nemom, Vattiyoorkavu, Thiruvananthapuram and Kazhakuttom.
Mr. Sivankutty alleged that the BJP had committed brazen electoral fraud by bundling and registering its supporters from different districts astatine rental addresses successful Thrissur up of the Lok Sabha polls, paving the mode for Union Minister Suresh Gopi’s victory.
“The BJP had clubbed scores of voters from different districts successful rental addresses successful flat complexes and gated communities successful Thrissur. The BJP had mobilised the duplicate voters, mostly its members and their families, from outlying districts wherever the enactment thought it had a zero accidental of victory, helium added.
Mr. Sivankutty said the BJP utilized its sizeable predetermination warfare thorax to rent houses and apartments to make impermanent residential addresses for its supporters simply arsenic an “exercise successful electoral fraud to springiness the enactment a leg-up astatine the ballot”. He alleged that the BJP besides underwrote the costs of moving “duplicate” voters from different districts to Thrissur connected polling day.
“The BJP is reemploying its aforesaid maneuver successful Thiruvananthapuram to make bogus voters successful ample numbers up of the Assembly polls,” helium said.
Mr. Sivankutty noted that apical BJP leaders, including BJP State president Rajiv Chandrasekhar and erstwhile Union Minister V. Muraleedharan, had shifted their residences and, consequently, their elector individuality to Thiruvananthapuram.
“Other BJP leaders are camping successful Thiruvananthapuram to facilitate the electoral fraud, helium added.
Mr. Sivankutty said the BJP’s “fraudulent elector addition” successful Thiruvananthapuram appeared unstoppable. “There are much than 300 high-rise flat complexes successful Thiruvananthapuram, with an estimated 12,000 surviving units. Most of them are unoccupied oregon disposable for rent, and the BJP is focusing connected these addresses to adhd voters from extracurricular districts successful bulk,” helium said.
Mr. Sivankutty said the gated communities were inaccessible to governmental agents. “We cannot sound connected doorway fronts and verify whether determination are caller tenants. Moreover, determination is thing amerciable astir having one’s elector individuality linked to one’s existent domicile, whether rented oregon owned, helium added.
Mr. Sivankutty noted that, dissimilar successful residential neighbourhoods, governmental workers cannot person doorstep conversations, including distributing pamphlets oregon voters’ slips to residents.
He said the CPI(M) would determination the Election Commission of India against the BJP’s “voter summation fraud”.
He said the enactment would besides motorboat a coordinated effort to observe persons who person moved from different districts and rented houses for name’s involvement to see themselves successful constituencies the BJP considers winnable.
