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Raj stated that following his complaint, Election Commission officials contacted him and assured that the status would be corrected. His status was subsequently amended from “permanently shifted” to “shifted,” with officials informing him that his name had not been deleted but that he should submit Form 6.

He expressed reservations about submitting Form 6, stating, “Why do I need Form 6? If I sign and give you Form 6, that means I accept that you’ve deleted it.” Instead, he submitted Form 8, which he alleged was not accepted by the authorities. He added, “The Election Commission’s position is that I should submit Form 6, but I would not do so. I am not going to fill up Form 6. I will start from the bottom.”

Raj also criticized the Election Commission’s decision to send a Booth Level Officer (BLO) to his previous residence, questioning the necessity of this action and asserting, “It shows there is a lot of trouble in the matter, bhai.”

He indicated plans to await the Election Commission’s response before deciding on further action, stating, “We will wait one or two days. If they don’t, then we will start protests. Then the whole state, the country will come together. Because today, accountability is the question.”

Addressing allegations of holding multiple voter IDs, Raj explained the issue dated back to 2018. He said he had previously informed the Election Commission about having a voter ID in Chennai, where he lived for approximately 20 years. He claimed to have submitted Form 7 to delete his Chennai voter registration after applying for a voter ID at a different location. The Election Commission, according to Raj, investigated and confirmed that other entries were fraudulent. He further asserted that correspondence submitted before the court showed a 2019 instruction from the Election Commission that only one voter ID belonging to him should remain on record. Raj conferred, “The tragedy is I have lost my only vote now.”

Raj also criticized the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process, which he has opposed from its inception, questioning the manner in which voter verification is conducted. He noted there is ample time to raise concerns and challenge what he described as issues in the process. He remarked, “I am not interested in discovering whether state government has to do it, central government has to do it. The Election Commission works under the central government. So it is their politics, their agenda.”

Earlier, in a video post on X, Raj sharply criticized the Election Commission’s SIR process, alleging that specific voters were being targeted. He wrote, “You may choose and deny voting rights of few citizens who may not elect you back to thrown… but can you stop us from eventually bringing you down from your thrown.”

He claimed the revision exercise was not intended to clean the voter list but rather to disenfranchise voters critical of the ruling establishment. He said, “Outing rights” – referring to the right to vote and participate in elections – “are being snatched through SIR,” and asserted that citizens would respond democratically.

Opposition parties and activists have expressed concern that the SIR could result in wrongful deletions, particularly affecting migrant workers, students and marginalized communities. The Election Commission has maintained that the exercise is routine and aimed at ensuring a clean and accurate electoral roll.