A resident of Coimbatore has approached Madras High Court seeking a direction to Election Commission of India (ECI) to conduct special polling arrangements for those whose names had been deleted from the electoral list and to not declare the Coimbatore Parliamentary constituency results until this polling takes place.
R. Suthanthira Kanna, a doctor employed in Australia, had filed the writ petition. In an affidavit filed through his counsel M. Mathan Raj, the petitioner said, he flew down to India on April 13 especially to exercise his franchise in phase I of polling for the Lok Sabha elections conducted in Tamil Nadu, on April 19, 2024.
However, to his shock, the petitioner found that his name and that of his wife had been removed from the electoral rolls, though their daughter’s name had been retained. He immediately lodged a complaint on ECI’s portal on April 15 and received an acknowledgement, but there was no resolution.
