Amid Bihar roll revision, Chidambaram flags 6.5 lakh voter addition in Tamil Nadu

The Election Commission of India today fact-checked senior Congress leader P Chidambaram as he criticised the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in Bihar and claimed that lakhs of names could be deleted from the voter list. In a post on X, the senior Congress leader said, "While 65 lakh voters are in danger of being disenfranchised in Bihar, reports of 'adding' 6.5 lakh persons as voters in Tamil Nadu is alarming and patently illegal”.

Meanwhile, the poll body has termed his claims “misleading” and clarified that the  "SIR has not yet been rolled out in Tamil Nadu". It also accused the leader of floating "false figures" about enrollment of 6.5 lakh voters in Tamil Nadu.

"It is therefore absurd to connect the SIR exercise in Bihar with Tamil Nadu. Such peddling of false statements with respect to SIR should be avoided.