‘DMK’s election defeat inevitable,’ claims Tamil Nadu BJP president Nainar Nagenthran

Chennai: Tamil Nadu BJP president Nainar Nagenthran on Monday accused Chief Minister M.K. Stalin of searching for excuses for his party’s impending defeat by opposing the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.

Nagenthran said it was ironic that Stalin, who once demanded such a revision during the 2017 R.K. Nagar by-election, citing bogus voters, is now questioning the very process.

“Whenever the Election Commission announces a voter list revision, Stalin raises an outcry. I wish to remind him that in 2017, it was the DMK that moved the Madras High Court seeking a special revision due to the presence of fake voters in R.K. Nagar. Has he forgotten that?” the BJP leader asked.

He said the Chief Minister’s allegation that the Election Commission was acting at the behest of the BJP was baseless.

“From the time of Jawaharlal Nehru, during successive Congress governments, as many as ten special voter list revisions have been undertaken. It is a routine administrative process. Does the Chief Minister not know this historical fact?” Nagenthran said.

Rejecting the DMK’s claim that the revision exercise could lead to voter deletions, the BJP leader said all officials involved — from the Chief Electoral Officer to district collectors, revenue officials, and village administrative officers — were government employees under the Tamil Nadu administration.  (IANS) 

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