CHENNAI: The Administrative Committee meeting of the Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK) on Friday condemned the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls and called the exercise unconstitutional.

Held under the stewardship of party general secretary Vaiko and principal secretary Durai Vaiko, the committee passed a resolution condemning the exercise being carried out in ten states and two Union Territories.

The ruling DMK's ally charged that the hurried revision of electoral rolls—carried out during the monsoon season—was designed to deny voting rights to genuine voters, as seen earlier in Bihar. The resolution also criticised the alleged attempt to link voter verification with citizenship determination under the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), calling it an unconst

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