DMK exerting pressure on BLOs during SIR in T.N., alleges Sudhakar Reddy

BJP nationalist co-in complaint for Tamil Nadu P. Sudhakar Reddy connected Friday took beardown objection to the DMK’s absorption to the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls successful Tamil Nadu. He besides claimed immoderate officials progressive successful the workout arsenic Booth Level Officers (BLOs) were not performing their duties decently owed to “indirect pressure” from the DMK government.

Mr. Reddy spoke to The Hindu connected the sidelines of a cluster-wise reappraisal gathering of the SIR workout organised by the Tamil Nadu BJP astatine Kamalalayam, the party’s State office successful Chennai. “The workout is being conducted by the Election Commission of India, an autarkic body, with the nonsubjective of cleaning the elector list. Unfortunately, successful immoderate areas of Tamil Nadu, the BLOs are not doing their enactment properly. The DMK authorities is indirectly exerting unit connected them,” helium said.

The cluster-wise meeting, chaired by nationalist wide caput Tarun Chugh, was meant to reappraisal the ongoing SIR successful the State and to instruct the coordinators of the party’s booth level agents to guarantee that the workout was carried retired without immoderate issues.

Mr. Reddy said the National Democratic Alliance’s triumph successful the caller Bihar Assembly predetermination had fixed caller enthusiasm to BJP leaders and enactment workers successful Tamil Nadu and different poll-bound States. “The BJP has been reaching retired to the radical of the State with its run highlighting the DMK’s misrule, corruption charges, instrumentality and bid failures, and crimes against women and children. The radical of Tamil Nadu are fed up with the alleged Dravidian exemplary government,” helium alleged.

Asked whether the BJP had identified immoderate circumstantial stronghold seats, Mr. Reddy said the cardinal enactment would determine the fig of seats to beryllium negotiated with the AIADMK, successful consultation with the State unit. “For now, our workers person been asked to spell door-to-door and explicate the Union government’s schemes. Every idiosyncratic is benefiting, straight oregon indirectly, from astatine slightest 7 to 8 schemes of the Centre,” helium added.