The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has approached the Supreme Court challenging the constitutional validity of the Election Commission of India’s directive ordering a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Tamil Nadu, calling the exercise “arbitrary, illegal, and unconstitutional”.

The plea, filed by P. Shanmugam , secretary of the CPI(M) Tamil Nadu State Committee, seeks to quash the EC’s order dated October 27, 2025, which mandates completion of the SIR process within just one month. A bench comprising Chief Justice B.R. Gavai and Justice K. Vinod Chandran took note of the plea on Monday after counsel for the party urged that it be heard along with the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) petition challenging the same directive. “We will see,” the CJI said. The

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