Chennai: Questioning the timing of the Election Commission’s move to purify the electoral rolls in Tamil Nadu, DMK chief M. Karunanidhi on Sunday sought to know why such an exercise is being undertaken after elections to the Tamil Nadu Assembly are over.
In a statement, Mr Karunanidhi said he and his party, DMK, have been crying hoarse for the past one year about bogus voters in the electoral rolls but the Election Commission never took it seriously.
“In my constituency of Tiruvarur, we told the EC that there are around 11,000 bogus voters, but the EC never took us seriously. Only based on the electoral rolls which would be purified now, the EC had conducted the 2016 Assembly elections and also the 2014 election,” he said in his statement.
After the elections, the EC now comes out with an announcement on purification of electoral rolls. “Who will take responsibility for the Himalayan mistake committed by the EC during the last two polls?” he asked.
