Describing the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls as anti-democratic, the all-party meeting convened by the ruling DMK on Sunday termed the Election Commission a puppet of the BJP, and decided to challenge the exercise in the Supreme Court.

While all the allies of the DMK and many registered political parties were in attendance, the principal opposition AIADMK, the BJP, and the PMK, as well as actor Vijay’s Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) and Seeman’s Naam Tamilar Katchi (NTK), have boycotted the meeting.

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The meeting, chaired by Chief Minister MK Stalin, described the SIR, imposed ahead of assembly polls, as against the interests of the people of Tamil Nadu. The apex court is yet to deliver its verdict in the Bihar SIR case, it was pointed out.

“The SIR is

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