Synopsis: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin chaired an all-party meeting on 2 November, opposing the Election Commission’s special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, alleging it’s a tactic to disenfranchise voters like in Bihar. Allies VCK, CPI(M), Congress backed a resolution against it, viewing it as an assault on citizenship. 40 of 64 invited parties attended. Meanwhile, key opponents like TMK, PMK and NTK etc remained absent.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin, on Sunday, 2 November, chaired an all-party meeting at the state Secretariat to discuss the special intensive revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls, alleging that the process is being misused nationally to remove genuine voters ahead of elections.

Stalin accused the central authorities of replicating tactics used

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