Congress leader Ramesh Chennithala on Wednesday alleged massive manipulation of the voters’ list with multiple entries for the same person.

However, much to his embarrassment, a person he named to prove his allegations said she was a Congress supporter.

Chennithala cited the example of a woman named Kumari in Uduma constituency of Kasaragod whose name figures five times in the list with different numbers.

“This voter has been added five times with the same name, address and photograph. She has been issued five electoral ID cards,” he said, adding it was not an isolated incident.

But Kumari later told reporters that she is a Congress supporter. “I am from a family of Congress supporters. It is the Congress party that helped me get the voters ID,” she told reporters who thronged her modest home in Uduma.

“This appears to be some mistake and it is for the officials to rectify it,” Kumari’s husband, Raveendran, said.