Sitharaman Alleges Thousands of Bogus Voters in Stalin’s Kolathur as DMK Orders Tight Monitoring

Political parties are contesting the Election Commission’s ongoing voter roll revision.

Overview

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman claimed Kolathur has about 4,379 duplicate entries and cited examples she said show repeated names and thousands of registrations with false addresses.
Detailing her charge, she pointed to specific booths and asserted there are 5,964 so‑called mixed households and roughly 9,133 voters registered with fake addresses in the constituency.
Sitharaman framed the Special Intensive Revision as a cleanup exercise and said voting rights would not be revoked, adding that the ECI could act where documents are lacking.
PMK leader Anbumani Ramadoss alleged DMK workers, not designated officials, were collecting SIR forms and urged the Election Commission to post out‑of‑state IAS observers in every Assembly seat.
DMK chief M. K. Stalin directed close oversight of the revision, appointing eight regional in‑charges and deploying legal teams led by N. R. Elango, while the ECI remains the authority and the claims await independent verification.