The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) has moved the Supreme Court challenging the Election Commission’s Special Intense Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls (SIR) of electoral rolls in Tamil Nadu, alleging that the exercise could lead to large-scale disenfranchisement of genuine voters ahead of the Lok Sabha polls.

The petition, filed through DMK organising secretary R S Bharathi, argues that the directive’s documentation requirements, lack of due process, and the unreasonably short time frame make it “bound to result in the removal of lakhs of genuine voters” from the electoral rolls. It contends that if the revision is not set aside, it could “arbitrarily and without due process disenfranchise lakhs of voters from electing their representatives, thereby disrupting free and fair elections.”

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