DMK, allies protest against SIR in Tamil Nadu

The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) and its allies in the Secular Progressive Alliance on Tuesday launched a series of state-wide protests against the Election Commission of India’s ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, alleging that the exercise was politically motivated and posed a direct threat to the democratic rights of Tamil Nadu’s



voters.

DMK President and Chief Minister M.K. Stalin, in a strongly worded post on X, declared that “stopping the SIR remains our foremost duty”.

He said the party was fighting the issue on both legal and ground-level fronts, asserting that the SIR was designed to “snatch away the right to vote that underpins democracy”.