Tamil Nadu Congress Committee appoints lawyers to monitor SIR across the State

With the Opposition MPs protesting against the Special Intensive Revision of the electoral rolls successful Parliament, Tamil Nadu Congress Committee (TNCC) president K. Selvaperunthagai on Tuesday named a sheet of lawyers for a State committee and nominated lawyers successful each Assembly constituency to monitor, check, and assistance successful the exercise. 

Mr. Selvaperunthagai said the lawyers would assistance the cadre capable up the forms and cheque whether the workout was being carried retired successful a escaped manner. “They volition cheque whether the Election Commission of India’s guidelines are being followed. We privation to destruct fake and treble voting. We already person co-ordinators and observers,” helium said.

“The Booth Level Officers are overworked and incapable to header with the stress. We judge that the one-week hold [of the exercise] is not enough. The SIR should beryllium conducted successful a thorough manner, without the unit of clip limit,” helium said.