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Kerala and Tamil Nadu, unsettled by the Election Commission’s voter roll revision, brace for political repercussions.

BJP says the SIR will help identify bogus voters allegedly included in the rolls at the behest of the ruling parties.

Tamil Nadu has called an all-party meeting on November 2.

Even as the Election Commission faces off with the Supreme Court of India over its Special Intensive Revision of voter rolls, the ECI has decided to undertake the SIR in poll-bound Southern states.

Unease over voter rolls and the ECI’s methods has united opposition parties against the BJP. Both the CPI(M) in Kerala and the DMK in Tamil Nadu have termed the move as unwarranted and politically motivated. The parties claim that revising voter rolls just ahead of elect

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