‘Absurd’: EC rejects Congress claim on Bihar migrant workers being added to Tamil Nadu voter list
The Election Commission on Sunday rejected claims made by Congress leader P Chidambaram that reports had shown 6.5 lakh persons were added to the electoral rolls in Tamil Nadu amid the special intensive revision of the voter list in Bihar.
The poll panel described the claims as being “misleading and baseless” and added that the exercise to revise electoral rolls in Tamil Nadu is yet to begin.
“It is therefore absurd to connect the SIR exercise in Bihar with TN,” said the Election Commission. “Such peddling of false statements with respect to SIR should be avoided.”
On Sunday, Chidambaram said that reports of migrant workers from Bihar being enrolled as voters in Tamil Nadu were “alarming and patently illegal”.
“Calling them ‘permanently migrated’ is an insult to the migrant workers and a gross interference in the right of the electorate of Tamil Nadu to elect a government of its choice,” the Congress leader said in a social media post.
He added: “Why should the migrant worker not return to Bihar (or his/her home state) to vote in the state Assembly election, as they usually do?”
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