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After legal battle, this SL Tamil is now Kottapattu camp's 1st voter
The New Indian Express
|April 15, 2024
"I AM going to vote for the first time in the general election and assert that I am an Indian.
I was dreaming of this opportunity for decades; now I feel I belong here," said Nalini Kirubakaran, 38, who resides in the rehabilitation camp for Sri Lankan Tamils at Kottapattu in Tiruchy.
Nalini was born in Mandapam camp, a refugee centre in Rameswaram, in 1986. Her journey from being a stateless citizen to the first refugee of the Kottapattu camp to get voting rights began in 2021 when she moved the Madras High Court after her application for an Indian passport was rejected by a regional passport office.
On August 12, 2022, the Madurai bench of the Madras High Court headed by Justice GR Swaminathan directed authorities to issue an Indian passport to Nalini, citing her birth certificate from Mandapam.
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