CHENNAI: BJP state unit president Nainar Nagenthran on Sunday accused the ruling DMK of turning the issue of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls into a "politically motivated diversionary drama."

Dubbing the DMK as "Dhisaithiruppu Munnetra Kazhagam", Nainar Nagenthran said Chief Minister M K Stalin, who had "never convened an all-party meeting to address people's grievances," had suddenly called one only on the SIR issue. "This clearly exposes his intent to mislead the public through yet another diversionary act," he charged in a statement.

He said the SIR, a routine, legally mandated voter list revision process carried out for decades to protect citizens' democratic rights, was being portrayed as alien and suspicious merely to distract people from the DMK government

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