Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani (left) and Zerodha's Nikhil Kamath | Manjunath Kiran/AFP, Nikhil Kamath, @nikhilkamathcio/X
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, The Hindu quoted state chief electoral officer’s office as saying. The arrangement will also be made for elderly voters and persons with disabilities.
Karnataka is among the 19 states and Union Territories where the voter roll revision is being carried out in the third phase of SIR.
In 2025, the first phase of the exercise was conducted in Bihar. It was extended to 12 states and Union Territories in the second phase in late 2025 and the first half of 2026.
Since it began, concerns have been raised that the revision could eliminate genuine voters from the rolls and even shape electoral outcomes, as Scroll has reported.
In May, the Supreme Court upheld the legality of the revision, but said that the exercise does not mean that the Election Commission can decide on whether the person is an Indian citizen.
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