The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has approached the Supreme Court challenging the constitutional validity of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Tamil Nadu.

The petition, filed by P Shanmugam, Secretary of the CPI(M) Tamil Nadu State Committee, alleged that the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) move is “arbitrary, illegal, and unconstitutional.”

It sought quashing of the ECI’s order dated October 27, 2025, which mandated completion of the SIR exercise within a month.

The petition submitted that the overall SIR schedule, from October 28, 2025, to February 7, 2026, allows barely 102 days for all stages of the process, including enumeration, verification, publication of draft rolls, scrutiny, objections, and final publication.

Such a compressed schedule def

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