Karnataka SIR: Nandan Nilekani, Zerodha co-founders’ names flagged for discrepancies

The names of Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani and brokerage platform Zerodha’s Nikhil Kamath and Nithin Kamath were flagged for discrepancies by the Election Commission as part of the special intensive revision of electoral rolls in Karnataka, The Hindu reported on Thursday.

Nilekani’s family, including his wife and two children, were classified as “unmapped with last SIR”, The Indian Express reported. This classification applies to voters who were not part of the 2002 electoral rolls.

Nikhil Kamath, Nithin Kamath and their mother Revathi Kamath have all been flagged for a “parents’ name mismatch” in the Bangalore South Assembly constituency, The Hindu reported.

The names of more than one crore voters were removed from Karnataka’s draft list published on August 24 as part of SIR. The excluded names amount to 19.4% of the state’s electorate.

The poll panel had said at the time that notices will be sent to 43 lakh persons whose enumeration forms either had anomalies or those who had not been mapped.

The claims and objections by voters against their removal from the draft list can be filed between August 24 and September 23. The appeals will be heard by October 22, before the final electoral roll is published on October 27.

Officials will visit prominent citizens and very important persons at their homes so that they do not have to go to the hearing centres,...

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