DMK is protesting against SIR to hide failure of its government: Nirmala Sitharaman

The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) is protesting against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls to fell the nonaccomplishment of its government, and to divert the attraction of the public, Union Finance Minister and BJP person Nirmala Sitharaman said connected Tuesday.

Addressing the media, Ms. Sitharaman said the SIR was carried retired 10 times earlier 2000, and past successful 2002, 2003, and 2004. “The DMK was an state of the Congress [in 2004], and was a portion of the Central authorities during immoderate of these periods. Then, wherefore is it protesting against the SIR now? The Chief Minister [M.K. Stalin] is saying the SIR volition snatch the voting rights of the people. No 1 volition beryllium deprived of their voting rights,” she said.

The Union Minister said that arsenic per the Constitution, it is mandatory for the EC to transportation retired the SIR earlier each election. She wondered if the DMK was protesting due to the fact that it did not privation the names of the dormant and those who had permanently moved retired of the State to beryllium removed from the rolls. “Does it not privation to see the names of Tamilians who person returned to the State and settled here? The DMK has failed successful governance, and the nationalist proceed to look respective problems. It has taken up the contented of SIR to divert the attraction of the people. This is simply a emblematic strategy of the DMK,” she said.

“The SIR is being carried retired with the thought of ‘one person, 1 vote’. The DMK and the Congress are trying to undermine the Election Commission,” she alleged.

When asked wherefore the SIR was being taken up now, with the Assembly predetermination owed to beryllium held adjacent year, she wondered wherefore the DMK did not inquire for the SIR earlier.