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With the Claims and Objections play nether the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rotation successful Tamil Nadu acceptable to extremity connected January 18, much than 12.8 lakh electors person submitted Forms 6 and 6A seeking inclusion of their names.
The play began connected December 19, 2025, erstwhile the draught electoral rotation was published aft the enumeration phase. Due to the SIR, astir 97.37 lakh electors retired of 6.41 crore were deleted, reducing the size of the electorate successful the State to 5.43 crore. According to information from the Election Commission, much than 32,000 forms person been submitted by electors seeking exclusion from the roll.
Although the six nationalist and six State parties unneurotic person 2.72 lakh Booth Level Agents (BLAs), with the DMK, the AIADMK and the BJP having much than 60,000 agents each, lone a small implicit 100 applications were filed by the parties’ seeking inclusion and exclusion successful the draught roll.
Sources successful the Dravidian majors said portion BLAs were authorised to record claims and objections with a prescribed declaration, they preferred to play a facilitator relation successful helping electors record the forms, arsenic they felt it was comparatively a elemental process.
Sources successful the DMK IT Wing, which coordinated the exercise, said its web of astir 68,000 BLAs and an adjacent fig of Booth Digital Agents (BDAs) worked astatine the booth level to assistance electors find their names successful the 2002 and 2005 SIR rolls and successful filling the forms.
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DMK IT Wing caput and Industries Minister T.R.B. Rajaa, successful a effect sent done his team, said: “Even portion being the lone enactment that raised concerns astir the gait of the SIR process successful Tamil Nadu, the DMK besides helped radical who risked losing their close to ballot and supported the Booth Level Officers, who were nether immense intelligence accent owed to the workload.” He said BDAs, who were equipped with modern technological tools, tracked the draught rolls, identified missing names, and helped electors capable enumeration forms.
The AIADMK, which supported the roll-cleaning exercise, held respective rounds of meetings and appointed district-wise and constituency-wise functionaries to oversee the process.
I.S. Inbadurai, the party’s advocates helping caput and Rajya Sabha Member, said the party’s BLAs worked intensively astatine the booth level during the enumeration signifier and aft the work of the draught roll. The functionaries astatine assorted levels held a bid of meetings to coordinate the full process.
“Through our enactment network, our BLAs traced electors who were shifted oregon absent from the draught rotation and helped them get enrolled. We anticipation that the last rotation volition beryllium clean,” helium added.
