Kochi
Congress leader and Leader of the Opposition V.D. Satheesan on Saturday alleged that the special intensive revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls was a “Bharatiya Janata Party tactic” to disrupt free and fair elections and the United Democratic Front would oppose all attempts to implement it in the State.
Speaking to reporters here, Mr. Satheesan said implementation of the SIR in Kerala would lead to many people who had been voting for more than 20 years being removed from the voters’ list. “They want the voter list to go back to the 2002 status,” he claimed.
The last SIR was carried out in Kerala in 2002.
“There will be strong protests against it across the State, similar to those seen in Bihar,” he said in response to reporters’ queries about the rollout of the SIR in Kerala.
The Election Commission recently said it would soon decide on the date to roll-out SIR on a pan-India basis and the exercise to clean up the voters’ list across States may take place before the end of the year.
Officials said with Assembly polls due in five States, including in Kerala, next year, an all-India SIR could take place in the coming months.
Published – September 13, 2025 08:41 pm IST
