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Election Commission calls Chidambaram's claims 'misleading and baseless'
The Statesman Bhubaneswar
|August 04, 2025
This is a matter of serious concern. These workers have come to Tamil Nadu for employment, but issuing voter ID cards to them here could lead to a major political shift in the state's future: Duraimurugan
Amid the ongoing controversy over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in Bihar, senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Sunday raised concerns about the alleged addition of 6.5 lakh voters in Tamil Nadu under the pretext of being "permanently migrated."
He called it both an insult to migrant workers and a serious infringement on the rights of Tamil Nadu's electorate to freely choose its government.
In a post on social media platform X, Chidambaram remarked that the SIR exercise was becoming "curiouser and curiouser." While 65 lakh voters in Bihar reportedly face disenfranchisement, reports of lakhs being added to Tamil Nadu's electoral rolls have raised alarms, he said, calling the move "patently illegal."
"Labeling them as 'permanently migrated' is an insult to migrant workers and a gross interference in the democratic rights of Tamil Nadu's voters. Why shouldn't a migrant worker return to Bihar (or his/her home state) to vote in the state assembly election, as they usually do?" Chidambaram asked.
This story is from the August 04, 2025 edition of The Statesman Bhubaneswar.
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