SIR showdown in Tamil Nadu: CM Stalin cries EC 'conspiracy'; DMK moves SC

NEW DELHI: Tamil Nadu's ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) connected Monday said it has filed a petition successful the Supreme Court against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) successful the confederate state.The Election Commission of India (ECI) past week ordered the adjacent limb of the SIR of electoral rolls, covering a twelve states and Union territories, and 51 crore electors successful all. Enumeration for this signifier is acceptable to commencement connected November 4, and the last electoral roll, with January 1, 2026, arsenic the qualifying date, volition beryllium published connected February 7, 2026.Four of the 5 states/UT wherever assembly polls are owed successful April-May adjacent twelvemonth — West Bengal, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry — are among the 12 that volition witnesser SIR implicit the adjacent 3 months.

Assam, though besides poll-bound, is not connected that list.Earlier today, main curate MK Stalin accused the ECI of "conspiring to implement" what helium described arsenic a "malicious exercise" done SIR of electoral rolls.He alleged that the process was intended to region genuine voters, peculiarly those perceived arsenic opposing the BJP, up of important authorities elections.“To forestall this anti-democratic move, we convened an all-party gathering and passed a solution condemning the SIR.

The Election Commission’s determination to transportation retired a afloat revision of the electoral rotation conscionable months earlier the predetermination is portion of a well-planned strategy to delete morganatic voters,” helium said, according to quality bureau IANS.CM Stalin added that the aforesaid maneuver was utilized earlier successful Bihar, wherever lakhs of genuine voters were allegedly removed from the list. He pointed retired that absorption to this arguable process had archetypal emerged from Tamil Nadu, pursuing which Congress person Rahul Gandhi and Bihar’s Opposition person besides raised beardown objections.“Even aft a ineligible lawsuit was filed, the Election Commission did not springiness a satisfactory explanation,” CM Stalin noted.Taking purpose astatine AIADMK wide caput Edappadi K. Palaniswami, CM Stalin accused him of “playing a treble game” and being “afraid of the Election Commission owed to his ties with the BJP.”He added that portion migrant workers from Bihar had recovered livelihood and respect successful Tamil Nadu, the Prime Minister was “playing governmental play successful Bihar for electoral gain.”The Election Commission of India (ECI) conducts a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls to guarantee the accuracy and completeness of elector lists up of large elections. The workout involves a elaborate door-to-door verification to place and region duplicate, shifted oregon deceased entries portion enrolling caller and first-time voters. Carried retired nether the Representation of the People Act, 1950, the SIR aims to support the integrity of the electoral rolls by updating demographic details and correcting inaccuracies. During the revision, booth-level officers sojourn households, verify electors’ details, and facilitate claims and objections. The process is simply a cardinal portion of the Commission’s elector rotation management, ensuring that each eligible national is included and the rolls bespeak the astir existent and authentic information earlier elections.