The All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) has filed an application in the Supreme Court supporting the Election Commission of India's (ECI) decision to conduct a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Tamil Nadu, calling it a legitimate and necessary exercise to uphold the sanctity of elections and prevent voter fraud.
The AIADMK is the first political party to move the Supreme Court in support of the SIR, which is under challenge by the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), the ruling party in Tamil Nadu. The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear the DMK's petition against the SIR tomorrow.
In its application, the AIADMK submitted that Tamil Nadu has 234 Assembly constituencies, each of which reportedly contains thousands of duplicate or ineligible entries in the v

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