Kozhikode: Making yet another revelation related to proliferation of bogus voters in the electoral rolls, opposition leader Ramesh Chennithala said more than one lakh people in electoral rolls have votes in multiple constituencies.
Talking to reporters in Kannur on Wednesday, Chennithala demanded that all bogus voters should be removed from the electoral rolls and urged the election commission to take steps to prevent such fake voters from casting votes.
Scrutiny by Opposition has revealed that there were 1,09,693 people who had votes in other constituencies apart from their original place of residence, he said and citing the case of Irikkur in Kannur, he added that there were 537 such bogus voters in Irikkur alone. It included 242 people from Thalipparamba, 127 from Payyannur, 91 from Kalliyassery, 47 from Azhikode and 30 from Kannur constituencies.
He said it has been found that all the double voters were given voter ID cards by the election commission in multiple constituencies as well. With this the total number of bogus voters in the voters’ list in the state has crossed more than 4.25 lakh.
“We suspect that Left-affiliated officials have deliberately included such double voters to help the front. There is a conspiracy behind this and it is being done by the ruling front to scuttle the mandate of the people of Kerala. CPM is suspected to have played a serious role in this as the party had been regularly engaged in including double voters in the electoral rolls and providing those facilities to remove indelible ink and making them vote again,” he added.
Later when asked during a media interaction in Kozhikode whether UDF would take the stand that it doesn’t need BJP votes in Thalassery and Guruvayur constituencies, Chennithala countered by asking if CPM has taken such a stand. “No party would say they don’t need votes in an election. There are many people without any political affiliations and they would vote as per their wish,” he added.