CHENNAI: Former Union minister P Chidambaram on Sunday termed the reported transfer so as to add 6.5 lakh migrant staff from Bihar to the electoral rolls in Tamil Nadu as “alarming and unlawful,” prompting Election Fee to dismiss his claims as “deceptive and baseless.“Chidambaram known as Election Fee’s SIR train in Bihar “an insult to migrant staff and a gross interference within the rights of the voters in Tamil Nadu,” a day after DMK and its allies opposed the ballot physique’s choice to register migrant staff within the states of their domicile.“If a migrant employee’s household has a everlasting dwelling in Bihar and continues to reside there, how can the employee be thought-about completely migrated to Tamil Nadu? How can she or he be enrolled as a voter in Tamil Nadu?” Chidambaram requested.In a fact-check put up on X, Election Fee cited Part 19(b) of the Illustration of the Folks Act, 1950, which states that each abnormal resident in a constituency shall be entitled to be registered within the electoral roll of that constituency.“Subsequently, an individual initially belonging to Tamil Nadu however ordinarily residing in Delhi is entitled to be registered as an elector in Delhi. Equally, an individual initially from Bihar however ordinarily residing in Chennai is entitled to be registered as an elector in Chennai,” Election Fee defined on X.