DMK protests witness participation from allies in Krishnagiri

The DMK led a monolithic protestation successful Krishnagiri with the information of the allied parties against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) workout successful the State, connected Tuesday. The protests arsenic portion of the State-wide protestation telephone fixed by the DMK and endorsed by each allied parties, witnessed monolithic information by the cadres astatine the Anna Statue grounds.

The SIR has conscionable commenced with a abbreviated completion model of 1 month. The Opposition had staunchly objected to the workout that saw elimination of lakhs of voters successful Bihar successful the tally up to the elections. The DMK and its allies alleged that SIR would disenfranchise domicile voters and would let for backdoor introduction of migrant workers into the elector list, shifting the elector demographic that is sympathetic to the BJP

The DMK had besides moved Supreme Court alleging that SIR was efficaciously a citizenship exercise. On Tuesday, hundreds of cadres raised slogans against the BJP and the Election Commission, with the enactment and its allies that included the CPI, CPI(M), Congress and the VCK participating successful the protests.

The enactment speakers slammed the Election Commission alleging that it was acting astatine the behest of the BJP, doing the bidding for the party. Alleging that the EC had fallen from its Constitutional mandate, the protesters demanded a halt to the exercise.

The protests was led by East District Secretary and Bargur MLA D.Mathialagan; and the West District Secretary and Hosur MLA Y.Prakash. The protests besides saw enactment from the Congress represented by Krishnagiri MP K.Gopinath; and Thally MLA and CPI territory caput T.Ramachandran.