NEW DELHI: Tamil Nadu's governing get together DMK on Monday filed a writ petition within the Supreme Court docket difficult the constitutional validity of the Election Fee's determination to conduct particular intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls of all states. It alleged that SIR is an arbitrary train that might result in removing of voters' names from the lists. DMK mentioned a particular abstract revision of TN voter record was performed between Oct 2024 and January 2025. DMK in SC: SIR train can disenfranchise lakhs of voters The revision had addressed problems with migration, dying and deletion of ineligible voters from the prevailing state electoral roll. “The SIR and the Orders, if not put aside, can arbitrarily and with out due course of, disenfranchise lakhs of voters from electing their representatives, thereby disrupting free and truthful elections and democracy within the nation, that are a part of the fundamental construction of the Structure,” mentioned DMK mentioned by means of its organising secretary R S Bharathi.DMK mentioned the Bihar SIR was carried out by introducing new and stringent necessities for voters to offer proof of citizenship, notably for individuals who weren't registered as voters within the 2003 electoral roll. It cited a number of orders of the SC, tweaking the process and permitting Aadhaar as an identification proof. DMK and mentioned the process adopted by EC in conducting SIR is neither prescribed within the Illustration of the Folks Act nor in Conduct of Election Guidelines. “There may be neither a necessity for conducting de novo verification of electoral rolls nor a compelling cause for such intensive train.” it mentioned. DMK mentioned, “…SIR is certain to trigger uncertainty and disenfranchisement of a major variety of voters, as seen in Bihar”, a cost but not accepted by the SC, which continues to be seized of the matter.
