NEW DELHI: Tamil Nadu's ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) on Monday mentioned it has filed a petition within the Supreme Court docket in opposition to the Particular Intensive Revision (SIR) within the southern state.The Election Fee of India (ECI) final week ordered the following leg of the SIR of electoral rolls, overlaying a dozen states and Union territories, and 51 crore electors in all. Enumeration for this part is about to start out on November 4, and the ultimate electoral roll, with January 1, 2026, because the qualifying date, can be printed on February 7, 2026.4 of the 5 states/UT the place meeting polls are due in April-Might subsequent yr — West Bengal, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry — are among the many 12 that may witness SIR over the following three months. Assam, although additionally poll-bound, shouldn't be on that checklist.Earlier immediately, chief minister MK Stalin accused the ECI of “conspiring to implement” what he described as a “malicious train” via SIR of electoral rolls.He alleged that the method was meant to take away real voters, notably these perceived as opposing the BJP, forward of essential state elections.“To stop this anti-democratic transfer, we convened an all-party assembly and handed a decision condemning the SIR. The Election Fee's determination to hold out a full revision of the electoral roll simply months earlier than the election is a part of a well-planned technique to delete respectable voters,” he mentioned, in response to information company IANS.CM Stalin added that the identical tactic was used earlier in Bihar, the place lakhs of real voters had been allegedly faraway from the checklist. He identified that opposition to this controversial course of had first emerged from Tamil Nadu, following which Congress chief Rahul Gandhi and Bihar's Opposition chief additionally raised robust objections.“Even after a authorized case was filed, the Election Fee didn't give a passable clarification,” CM Stalin famous.Taking goal at AIADMK common secretary Edappadi Ok. Palaniswami, CM Stalin accused him of “enjoying a double sport” and being “afraid of the Election Fee resulting from his ties with the BJP.”He added that whereas migrant employees from Bihar had discovered livelihood and respect in Tamil Nadu, the Prime Minister was “enjoying political drama in Bihar for electoral achieve.”The Election Fee of India (ECI) conducts a Particular Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls to make sure the accuracy and completeness of voter lists forward of main elections. The train includes an in depth door-to-door verification to establish and take away duplicate, shifted or deceased entries whereas enrolling new and first-time voters. Carried out underneath the Illustration of the Folks Act, 1950, the SIR goals to keep up the integrity of the electoral rolls by updating demographic particulars and correcting inaccuracies. Throughout the revision, booth-level officers go to households, confirm electors' particulars, and facilitate claims and objections. The method is a key a part of the Fee's voter roll administration, making certain that each eligible citizen is included and the rolls replicate probably the most present and genuine information earlier than elections.
