Senior Congress leader Kamal Nath on Saturday (August 9, 2025) buttressed the demand for machine-readable electoral rolls to be given to parties by citing how he had raised issues regarding voter lists in Madhya Pradesh in 2018.
The former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister said in 2018 he had raised specific issues with discrepancies in electoral rolls in the State, which included demographically similar entries where the same person had the same names in various assemblies or booths, photographically similar entries where the same person or photographs were present in different locations, fictitious names in the electoral rolls that were not being traced on the ground, and dead or shifted voters in the electoral rolls.
He said that there were also instances of electors with unrecognisable photographs and an abnormally high number of voters in single addresses or invalid addresses, which had been flagged.
EC’s counter affidavit
The former Union Minister said in the counter affidavit filed in court that the Election Commission had acknowledged these discrepancies and agreed to delete or take corrective actions in the rolls.
