HOURS AFTER the Election Commission announced that it would conduct the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in 12 states and Union Territories, including the Opposition-ruled Kerala, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal which are headed for polls next year, the first pushback came from the DMK-governed Tamil Nadu.

Calling the exercise a “conspiracy” to snatch the voting rights of the people of the state, the M K Stalin government called an all-party meeting on November 2 to discuss the issue.

Opposition parties have been up in arms against the EC ever since it announced and conducted the SIR in the election-bound Bihar.

After the EC announcement on conducting the SIR between November and February, the DMK and its allies went into a huddle in Chennai . They accused the BJP government at the Centr

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