SIR will be NDA’S miscalculation: CM

ACCUSING the BJP and its ally, the AIADMK, of a ploy to secure victory by deleting the names of working-class people, scheduled castes, minorities, and women from electoral rolls through the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), Chief Minister and DMK president MK Stalin on Sunday said that such efforts would prove to be a grave miscalculation in Tamil Nadu.

- EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE @Chennai

He asserted that both parties lack the courage to face the people directly at the hustings and are instead seeking to win by depriving citizens of their fundamental democratic right to vote.

The DMK president, in a letter to party cadre, responded to the Election Commission of India’s announcement that the SIR of electoral rolls will begin in Tamil Nadu within a week.

Stalin said the DMK had already urged the ECI to reconsider the SIR and that the DMK has the strength to face any of their ‘antidemocratic’ activities.