Binoy Viswam
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Communist Party of India (CPI) State secretary Binoy Viswam accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of using its political heft at the Centre to subvert the Election Commission of India (EC) into deleting secular votes in several districts where the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) perceives a winning chance in the 2026 Assembly elections in Kerala.
Mr. Viswam alleged that the EC had arbitrarily struck off thousands of voters from the electoral rolls in Assembly constituencies that the BJP has categorised as A+ and A, reflecting the NDA’s projected prospects.
They included, Mr Viswam stated, Kazhakuttom (43,395 deleted votes), Vattiyoorkavu (54,000), Nemom (49,000), Attingal (16,000), Kattakada (22,233), and Manalur in Thrissur (20,000), among other Assembly segments.
Mr. Viswam termed the EC’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls an exercise in farce calibrated to aid the BJP electorally by negating the anti-NDA votes.
He said the EC had aided the NDA’s win against heavy odds in the Bihar, Assam, and Maharashtra Assembly polls by deleting thousands of voters and stacking electoral rolls with the names of BJP supporters from other regions on fake and rental addresses.
‘EC displayed undue haste’
He said the EC displayed undue haste in finalising the electoral rolls ahead of the 2026 Kerala Assembly polls.
“The EC rejected demands from political parties for more time. Moreover, it seemed intent on removing existing voters from the rolls rather than ensuring maximum participation in the democratic process.
It disenfranchised tens of thousands of voters on flimsy grounds, including absenteeism from residence, untraceable, and categorising living persons as deceased, he added.
Mr. Viswam said the Left Democratic Front (LDF) would mobilise large numbers of people to protest the EC’s denial of voting rights.
He accused the BJP’s State leadership of taking a feudalistic turn. “For one, the BJP State president infringed organisational procedures by declaring his candidacy from Nemom on his own initiative, without placing the proposal before the party’s various committees for discussion,” he noted.
Mr. Viswam said secular forces would ensure that the BJP’s aspiration to secure a presence in the Assembly remained a pipe dream.
Published – December 22, 2025 05:12 pm IST
