The Election Commission of India (ECI), despite a case still pending in the Supreme Court and despite strong opposition from political parties and conscious citizens, has announced a nationwide Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter lists. The Commission, boasting that it has already completed this process successfully in Bihar, has now announced the schedule for the second phase of the SIR. As the exercise starts from Tuesday, November 4, in 12 states, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) and other parties of the INDIA bloc have decided to approach the SC against it. In the remaining states, the SIR may be conducted anytime after February next year.

The constitutional validity of the SIR process and the ECI’s authority to conduct the SIR are still being heard in the Supreme Court. Yet,

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