Chennai: Just six months to go for the Assembly elections in Tamil Nadu, the Election Commission of India (ECI) on Friday informed the Madras High Court that it would commence the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the State in a week.

Niranjan Rajagopalan, counsel for the ECI, told the first Division Bench of Chief Justice Manindra Mohan Shrivastava and Justice G Arul Murugan that the SIR would commence in a “week or so” as part of the nationwide exercise.

The ECI also gave an assurance to the court that it would follow all directions given by the Supreme Court in a case related to SIR in Bihar, while conducting the exercise in Tamil Nadu. The State will go for polls in April-May 2026, and political parties like the ruling DMK have already been asking people to be vi

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