Shameful that AIADMK is supporting SIR in Supreme Court: Stalin

DMK president and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin connected Friday slammed the AIADMK for filing a petition successful the Supreme Court supporting the Election Commission of India’s (EC) ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of elector rolls. He said this was shameful.

Addressing a gathering of party’s booth agents successful his Kolathur Assembly constituency successful Chennai, Mr. Stalin said the DMK cadre had to bash much than conscionable guarantee the party’s triumph successful adjacent year’s Assembly election. “Usually, during election, we entrust you with the work of ensuring the party’s victory. But this time, an further work has been placed connected you — to support the people’s close to vote,” helium said, adding, “From November 4 to December 4, lone 1 period has been allotted for the process. Within that month, each voter’s exertion signifier — the signifier utilized to enrol oneself arsenic a elector — indispensable beryllium completed.”

Criticising the AIADMK, Mr. Stalin said the enactment was not functioning similar an ‘Opposition party’ and warned it could soon wither distant and not adjacent beryllium arsenic a ‘splinter party’. “They person taken their enactment to Delhi, pledged it there, accepted each the conditions imposed for SIR and are supporting it. While each different parties crossed the state are going to the Supreme Court, opposing the SIR, the AIADMK present is going to determination successful enactment of it. This is simply a nationalist disgrace,” helium remarked.

Pointing retired that Congress person Rahul Gandhi had been raising respective allegations regarding ‘Vote Theft’ with evidence, Mr. Stalin said, “Not adjacent a azygous genuine elector should beryllium excluded from the elector rolls. That is wherefore the DMK has gone to court. We are raising the contented successful the people’s forums arsenic well. Already connected October 27, the DMK invited leaders of our affable confederation parties for a gathering and gave respective suggestions. Following that, connected November 2, we conducted an all-party gathering successful Tamil Nadu — inviting each registered enactment without immoderate discrimination, adjacent including those who reason oregon criticise us.” He said speaking astir SIR had go unavoidable and that the EC had forced everyone to “prove that we were Indian citizens”.

He added: “The EC has placed this immense load connected us. It has created a concern wherever people’s voting rights themselves are astatine risk. You cognize precise good who created specified a concern — the Union government.”

‘DMK sabotaging SIR’

Speaking to reporters astatine Salem Airport, AIADMK wide caput Edappadi K. Palaniswami said the DMK and its confederation opposed the SIR due to the fact that dormant voters’ names were not removed for galore years. He contended that for 21 years, the SIR was not done, leaving thousands of dead, shifted, and fake voters’ names connected the elector list. He besides alleged that the SIR successful respective places, including Chennai, was progressing dilatory owed to interference from the DMK. He besides charged galore officials of moving against SIR connected alleged oral instructions from the DMK.

Stating that determination was nary disorder successful the enumeration forms, Mr. Palaniswami said that to capable the forms, qualified Booth Level Officers (BLOs) should beryllium appointed. The District Election Officers were not moving decently and had not appointed qualified BLOs, helium alleged

“Many times, the AIADMK took up the issues of fake voters to the District Election Officers acrophobic but nary enactment was taken. Due to this, the AIADMK moved to tribunal and removed 31,000 names from the elector database successful R.K. Nagar constituency and 10,000 names from the elector database successful Karur constituency. In Chennai, successful each constituency, astir 50,000 dormant oregon fake voters’ names are successful the elector list,” helium alleged.