DMK challenges SIR in SC, raises voter purge fear

NEW DELHI: Tamil Nadu's governing enactment DMK connected Monday filed a writ petition successful the Supreme Court challenging the law validity of the Election Commission's determination to behaviour peculiar intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls of each states. It alleged that SIR is an arbitrary workout that would pb to removal of voters' names from the lists. DMK said a peculiar summary revision of TN elector database was conducted betwixt Oct 2024 and January 2025. DMK successful SC: SIR workout tin disenfranchise lakhs of voters The revision had addressed issues of migration, decease and deletion of ineligible voters from the existing authorities electoral roll. "The SIR and the Orders, if not acceptable aside, tin arbitrarily and without owed process, disenfranchise lakhs of voters from electing their representatives, thereby disrupting escaped and just elections and ideology successful the country, which are portion of the basal operation of the Constitution," said DMK said done its organising caput R S Bharathi.DMK said the Bihar SIR was carried retired by introducing caller and stringent requirements for voters to supply impervious of citizenship, peculiarly for those who were not registered arsenic voters successful the 2003 electoral roll. It cited respective orders of the SC, tweaking the process and allowing Aadhaar arsenic an individuality proof. DMK and said the process adopted by EC successful conducting SIR is neither prescribed successful the Representation of the People Act nor successful Conduct of Election Rules.

"There is neither a necessity for conducting de novo verification of electoral rolls nor a compelling crushed for specified extended exercise." it said. DMK said, "...SIR is bound to origin uncertainty and disenfranchisement of a important fig of voters, arsenic seen successful Bihar", a complaint yet not accepted by the SC, which is inactive seized of the matter.