NEW DELHI: Tamil Nadu's ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) on Monday said it has filed a petition in the Supreme Court against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in the southern state. The Election Commission of India (ECI) last week ordered the next leg of the SIR of electoral rolls, covering a dozen states and Union territories, and 51 crore electors in all. Enumeration for this phase is set to start on November 4, and the final electoral roll, with January 1, 2026, as the qualifying date, will be published on February 7, 2026. Four of the five states/UT where assembly polls are due in April-May next year — West Bengal, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry — are among the 12 that will witness SIR over the next three months. Assam, though also poll-bound, is not on that list.

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