CHENNAI: AIADMK organising secretary and former minister D Jayakumar on Thursday alleged that members of the DMK were interfering in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls being carried out in Chennai.

Jayakumar said the SIR exercise is intended to identify and remove duplicate entries and the names of deceased voters from the electoral roll, but claimed that DMK cadre were “acting in an abusive manner” and obstructing the process. He said that during the earlier SIR conducted in 2002, nearly forty-nine lakh names were removed from the rolls, and the DMK “remained silent” then without opposing the exercise.

He also alleged that Chennai Corporation Commissioner and District Electoral Officer J Kumaragurubaran was biased, stating that the officer had “slipped from his pos

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