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The ruling DMK connected Monday urged the Election Commission of India to instantly halt the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rotation and to behaviour it successful a much technological and systematic manner. It said if the ECI continued the workout successful its contiguous form, with each its shortcomings, galore eligible voters would beryllium deleted portion ineligible voters mightiness beryllium included.
In a missive to the Chief Election Commissioner, DMK organisation caput R.S. Bharathi said the result of the existent process would beryllium diametrically opposed to the objectives of the ECI.
“We taxable that this workout requires astatine slightest 1 twelvemonth for due implementation. The ECI should behaviour the SIR aft taking into relationship each applicable difficulties and defer the implementation of its bid dated 27 October 2025 until aft the 2026 elections,” Mr Bharathi said.
Pointing retired determination was sizeable uncertainty and disorder among voters, helium said it was not wide whether it was mandatory to affix photographs to the enumeration form.
“Married women who were voters successful their parental constituencies present necessitate clarification regarding the documents needed to enrol arsenic voters successful their marital constituencies. We besides privation to cognize the presumption of voters whose names were deleted from the 2024–2025 electoral roll,” helium said.
Mr Bharathi further sought clarification connected the implications for individuals whose names oregon whose parents’ names could not beryllium traced successful the 2002 oregon 2005 electoral rolls.
Alleging Booth Level Officers (BLOs) were not carrying the 2002/2005 elector lists, helium questioned however mean citizens could entree them.
“For voters who person shifted their residence to different constituencies, however tin they entree the 2002/2005 elector lists? How tin these lists beryllium correlated with constituencies that underwent delimitation?” helium asked.
Mr Bharathi added astir of the lists published by the ECI connected its website did not incorporate thoroughfare names oregon capable elector details to alteration recognition and correlation of voters’ names for completing the enumeration form. “This poses a important situation for mean citizens attempting to capable successful the form. The difficulties faced by illiterate citizens cannot beryllium overstated. This contented indispensable beryllium duly addressed by the ECI,” helium said.
He explained the DMK’s absorption to the SIR stemmed from the mode successful which it was being implemented — citing insufficient time, procedural shortcomings and improprieties, deficiency of preparedness and consciousness among BLOs, and the undue hardship imposed connected mean citizens.
