<h1>Minister accuses opposition of appeasement politics and manufacturing voter-roll duplicate narrative to stir communal and linguistic divisions</h1> A ruling-party minister accused opposition leaders of engaging in appeasement politics and conspiring to pressure election staff ahead of local body polls, alleging they are creating a 'fake narrative' by selectively highlighting duplicate entries among certain voter groups to foment communal and linguistic division. The minister urged opposition figures to support the election authority's intensive voter-list revision and cited analyses purporting large numbers of duplicate minority voters. An opposition MLA countered that critics are met with fabricated cases when they expose irregularities and said demonstrations were held against alleged wrongful additions and deletions in electoral rolls; the state election authority has been ordered to complete polls by January 31, 2026.