Overview
- Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman called the Special Intensive Revision a constitutional exercise under Articles 324 and 329 and described it as routine.
- She cited verification figures claiming 7 lakh duplicate voters, 20 lakh fake entries, and 35 lakh migrated voters statewide, totaling 68 lakh ineligible entries.
- Sitharaman said Polling Level Officers are conducting door-to-door checks and insisted that no legitimate voter will be removed.
- Pointing to Chennai’s Kolathur, she claimed 4,379 fake voters were found, with 5,964 fake entries detected during verification, including bogus addresses and multiple IDs.
- Tamil Nadu minister S. Raghupathi alleged the Election Commission rushed the process with hidden motives, accused AIADMK leader Edappadi K. Palaniswami of colluding with the BJP, and said the DMK has filed a Supreme Court petition after statewide demonstrations.