Synopsis: The ECI’s decision to implement SIR of the voters’ list in Kerala, even as the state readies for its local body elections, has triggered an unprecedented political uproar — with the ruling CPI(M), the Congress, and the chief minister himself accusing the Commission of acting under political influence.

As Kerala prepares to convene an all-party meeting on Wednesday, 5 November, to discuss the Election Commission of India’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls, political attention is firmly fixed on whether the CPI(M)-led Left government will move the Supreme Court against what many are calling an “anti-democratic” exercise.

The meeting comes amid mounting pressure from Congress, which has urged the state government—not individual parties—to take the legal ini

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