Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK president M K Stalin on Tuesday accused the BJP of plotting to disenfranchise lakhs of voters through the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, and announced that an all-party meeting would be held in Chennai on November 2 to decide the next course of action.

Addressing party workers at the ‘My Polling Booth–Victory Booth’ training programme in Mamallapuram, Stalin alleged that the BJP and the AIADMK were attempting to “win by deletion”, targeting voters among the working class, Scheduled Castes, minorities, and women. “They lack the courage to face the people. Their calculation is to remove the voting rights of those who stand with us. But Tamil Nadu will not allow it,” he said, alleging that the EC had already de

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