Kerala woman alleges nine fake votes registered using her address in BJP-held Thrissur seat
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Thrissur: A woman in Kerala’s Thrissur has alleged that nine “fake” voters were added to the electoral rolls using her residential address without her knowledge. The complaint comes amid opposition allegations of large-scale voter list manipulation in the state.
Prasanna, a resident of 4C, Capital Village Apartments in Poonkunnam, told reporters that she is the only person in her household registered to vote in Thrissur city. Other adult members of her family are registered in their ancestral village of Poochinipadam. She said she discovered the nine additional names when approached for verification.
“We don’t know any of them. We have been living here for four years. It’s not right to add names to our address without our consent,” she said, adding that she has lodged a complaint with the district collector.
The CPI(M) alleged that similar irregularities were found in other Poonkunnam apartment complexes, including Water Lily and Capital Village, claiming that vacant flats were used as fake addresses to transfer votes from other districts. Former Thrissur CPI(M) candidate V.S. Sunil Kumar accused the Election Commission of allowing such irregularities, alleging that in one booth alone, 280 applications arrived together, with names from other constituencies and migrant workers included. He also claimed the EC permitted voter registration using postal cards as address proof.
Thrissur was the only Lok Sabha seat in Kerala won by the BJP in 2024, with Suresh Gopi defeating Sunil Kumar of the LDF and K. Muraleedharan of the UDF.
Opposition leader V.D. Satheesan demanded a thorough probe, accusing the BJP of manipulating the voter list to undermine free and fair elections. He praised Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for highlighting alleged poll fraud and urged citizens to resist “fascism, autocracy, and communalism.”
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Niqab incident: Nitish Kumar perhaps revealing his true colours, says J-K CM
Srinagar (PTI): Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday criticised his Bihar counterpart over the niqab incident and said that Nitish Kumar might be slowly revealing his true nature.
"Nitish Kumar, who was once considered a secular leader, may be slowly showing his true colours," Abdullah told reporters here on the sidelines of a function.
Abdullah said Kumar removing the face veil of a Muslim woman doctor was wrong and cannot be justified by any means.
"We have seen this kind of incident here several years ago. Have you forgotten how Mehbooba Mufti removed the burqa of a legitimate voter inside a polling station? That act was wrong, and this act (of Kumar) is also wrong.
"If the (Bihar) chief minister did not want to hand over the order to her (Muslim woman), they could have kept her aside. However, to humiliate her like this is totally wrong," the Jammu and Kashmir chief minister said.
Kumar stirred a huge controversy after he removed the face veil of a Muslim woman at a function earlier this week.
