Communist Party of India (CPI) State secretary Binoy Viswam accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of using its political heft at the Centre to subvert the Election Commission of India (EC) into deleting secular votes in several districts where the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) perceives a winning chance in the 2026 Assembly elections in Kerala.
Mr. Viswam alleged that the EC had arbitrarily struck off thousands of voters from the electoral rolls in Assembly constituencies that the BJP has categorised as A+ and A, reflecting the NDA’s projected prospects.
They included, Mr Viswam stated, Kazhakuttom (43,395 deleted votes), Vattiyoorkavu (54,000), Nemom (49,000), Attingal (16,000), Kattakada (22,233), and Manalur in Thrissur (20,000), among other Assembly segments.
Mr. Viswam termed the EC’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls an exercise in farce calibrated to aid the BJP electorally by negating the anti-NDA votes.
He said the EC had aided the NDA’s win against heavy odds in the Bihar, Assam, and Maharashtra Assembly polls by deleting thousands of voters and stacking electoral rolls with the names of BJP supporters from other regions on fake and rental addresses.
