Thiruvananthapuram: Opposition leader Ramesh Chennithala said it was the duty of the election commission (EC) to prepare a meticulous and error-free voters’ list. The commission should not have waited for someone to find out the massive discrepancies.
On the charges levelled by the election commission that he should not have come out with discrepancies at the eleventh hour, Chennithala said it was not humanly possible to find out the massive rigging made in the voters’ list in a day. “It took months to analyze the list and find out the discrepancies,” he said.
He alleged that now it has become evident that LDF had won the local body elections with a rigged voters list. “CPM is purely behind the rigging of the voters’ list and it has been done with the knowledge of Pinarayi Vijayan,” said Chennithala.
He alleged that the same type of rigging is being done in the postal ballots too. Massive irregularities have been found in getting the votes through the postal ballots meant for people who are aged above 80 years. Congress has filed several complaints to the election commission regarding this.
In Thiruvananthapuram constituency, postal ballots have been issued to eight people who have died. We have submitted the details of these ballots to the EC. “The election commission should ensure a transparent, free and fair poll,” he said.