The Election Commission will on Monday announce the first phase of the pan-India Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. The announcement will cover 10–15 states/UTs, including poll-bound West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Assam, and Puducherry.

The upcoming crucial EC presser has triggered sharp political reactions across party lines in the aftermath of the highly controversial Bihar SIR.

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Tamil Nadu CM and DMK chief MK Stalin accused the saffron party of “plotting to remove names from the voter list” ahead of state polls, as in Bihar. He alleged that the SIR in Bihar “excluded 65 lakh voters.”

DMK and other INDIA bloc parties have alleged that the BJP government is “attempting to use the EC as its puppet to replicate the same in Tamil Nadu,” Stalin said in a l

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