The Left Democratic Front government in Kerala on Wednesday said that it will move the Supreme Court against the special intensive revision of the electoral rolls in the state, Onmanorama reported.

The decision came after an all-party meeting convened by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan in Thiruvananthapuram, the Hindustan Times reported. All parties, except the Bharatiya Janata Party, that attended the meeting backed the state government’s decision to legally challenge the exercise.

On Tuesday, the Election Commission began the enumeration phase of the revision of the electoral rolls in 12 states and Union Territories, including Kerala. The exercise had been announced by Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar on October 27.

Besides Kerala, the states and Union Territories include Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Puducherry, where Assembly elections are expected to take place in 2026.

The draft rolls will be published on December 9, and the final list on February 7, 2026.

On Monday, Tamil Nadu’s ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam moved the Supreme Court against the revision of the electoral rolls in the state, describing it as a “constitutional overreach”. The petition contended that the exercise could lead to the large-scale disenfranchisement of voters.

At the meeting on Wednesday, Vijayan said that the Kerala government and the ruling Communist Party of India (Marxist) would seek legal advice on challenging the exercise, especially taking into account the upcoming local body elections in the state, Onmanorama reported.

These polls are scheduled to take place in November or December.

“While a revised voter list is in place following the Lok Sabha elections last year, the move to implement a radical voter list revision based on the 2002 list is both unscientific and ill-intentioned, the CM told the meeting,” the Hindustan Times quoted Vijayan’s office as having said in a statement.

VD Satheesan, Congress leader and leader of the Opposition in the Assembly, agreed with the concerns shared by the chief minister during the meeting. Satheesan said that he was ready to become a party to the case if the state government moved the court, the statement added.

CPI(M) state Secretary MV Govindan also described the move to revise the electoral rolls as “unconstitutional” and “anti-democratic”, the Hindustan Times reported.

In September, the Kerala Assembly had unanimously passed a resolution against the Election Commission’s decision to conduct the revision, saying that the “hasty” move could harm the rights of citizens.

In Bihar, where the revision was completed ahead of the ongoing Assembly elections, at least 47 lakh voters were excluded from the final electoral roll published on September 30.

Concerns had been raised after the announcement in Bihar that the exercise could remove eligible voters from the roll. Several petitioners also moved the court against it.

On September 8, the Supreme Court directed the Election Commission to accept Aadhaar as a valid identity proof for the exercise in Bihar.

Aadhaar had not been among the 11 documents the poll panel had allowed as proof of citizenship. Petitioners had called its exclusion “absurd”, noting that it was the most widely held form of identification.

The Election Commission has repeatedly defended the revision as a clean-up effort to remove names of the deceased, duplicate entries and undocumented migrants.

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