Deleting anti-BJP votes from electoral roll through SIR can be precursor to repealing Indian citizenship, says MP Kanimozhi

The wide deletion of anti-BJP votes from the voters’ database done Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rotation tin beryllium the BJP’s archetypal measurement to repeal their citizenship, arsenic these voters cannot workout their franchise successful immoderate predetermination successful future, MP Kanimozhi said.

Addressing the protestors present connected Tuesday, she said the DMK, too filing the lawsuit against SIR successful the Supreme Court, was expressing its dissent astir this ‘hasty and unnecessary’ workout by organising demonstrations crossed Tamil Nadu, successful which the allies excessively were participating to explicit their solidarity. Even though SIR had been done earlier, including successful 2002, the Election Commission of India past gave six months for submitting the filled-in forms for enrolling the voters. However, contiguous Chief Election Commissioner had fixed the voters lone 30 days for receiving and submitting the filled-in applications.

Voters who could not find a spot successful the draught electoral rolls successful SIR 2025 could ne'er see their names earlier the upcoming Assembly elections successful 2026 by escalating their grievance with the Electoral Registration Officer, District Electoral Officer oregon adjacent the Chief Electoral Officer.

Since the SIR was being done successful a hasty manner, it was not an workout to see the genuine voters but to delete the electors who would ne'er enactment the BJP. Since the SIR done successful Bihar, Haryana and Maharashtra had taught bitter lessons to the genuine voters, whose names had been deleted deliberately from the electoral roll, they could not formed their votes successful the Assembly elections. Over 68 genuine voters’ names, mostly of Muslims, women, Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes, had been deleted during the precocious conducted SIR successful Bihar.

She appealed to the Tamil Nadu voters to enactment the DMK and its allies successful the combat against SIR arsenic this ‘wicked exercise’ would contradict them voting right, payment schemes and supra all, outgo their citizenship.

Similar agitations were organised successful Tirunelveli, Tenkasi and Kanniyakumari districts besides by the DMK and the ruling parties electoral allies.