Overview
- DMK organisation secretary R S Bharati submitted a representation to the Chief Election Commissioner seeking an immediate halt to the Special Intensive Revision in Tamil Nadu.
- The party asked that the EC’s October 27 order be deferred and said the exercise requires at least one year for proper implementation after the 2026 elections.
- Cited issues include voter lists lacking street names, limited training and hours for BLOs, confusion for married women on documentation, questions over 2024–25 deletions, and difficulties correlating 2002/2005 lists after delimitation.
- Bharati warned that continuing the process as is could delete numerous eligible voters and include ineligible names, while Chief Minister M. K. Stalin called the SIR a political weapon and announced protests on Tuesday.
- AIADMK filed a plea in the Supreme Court supporting the SIR as necessary to prevent fraud, CPI(M) moved the court against it, and a two-judge bench is expected to hear the petitions on Tuesday; no EC response was reported.