Overview
- Suresh Gopi and his family voted on December 9 in the Sasthamangalam ward of the Thiruvananthapuram municipal corporation during Kerala’s local body polls.
- CPI leader V. S. Sunil Kumar and Congress figures questioned how he could vote in Thiruvananthapuram after casting his 2024 Lok Sabha vote in Nettissery, Thrissur, and they pressed the Election Commission for an explanation.
- Thrissur Congress district president Joseph Tajat accused him of misleading voters and urged an apology or resignation from his MP post.
- Election officials said his name has long been on the Sasthamangalam local voters’ roll, it was not deleted or transferred, and there is no record of him voting in any Thrissur local body election.
- The BJP called the allegations politically driven, citing separate rolls and his valid Sasthamangalam address, while no fresh EC inquiry has been reported after an earlier FIR linked to the 2024 poll was closed.