Kerala elections | Pinarayi Vijayan’s words reflect shame of failure on fake voters issue, says Ramesh Chennithala

The Leader of the Opposition says CPI(M)’s plan to sabotage democratic process with fake voters backfired

Responding to criticism levelled against him by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on the fake voters issue, Leader of the Opposition Ramesh Chennithala on Friday said that the former’s words reflected the embarrassment and frustration caused by the failure of a sinister plan to sabotage the democratic process by manipulating the electoral roll. Mr. Chennithala said that by falsely claiming that the Opposition leader tried to portray all electorate in Kerala as bogus voters, the Chief Minister has reached a low ebb. Fake voters were added to the voters’ list by the Communist Party of India (Marxist) with the help of government officials inclined to the party. There is a need to find fake identity cards used to enrol bogus voters.