CHENNAI: BJP chief Okay. Annamalai on Tuesday countered Chief Minister M.Okay. Stalin’s criticism of the Election Fee’s Particular Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Tamil Nadu, accusing him of “brazen hypocrisy” and “appalling double requirements.” He stated the Chief Minister was trying to politicise a routine electoral course of that has been a part of India’s democratic framework for many years.

Reacting to Stalin’s allegation that the SIR was a “BJP-backed conspiracy” to disenfranchise voters, Annamalai stated such remarks confirmed the Chief Minister’s “hole grasp of democratic procedures.”

He identified that electoral roll revisions weren’t new, having been performed 13 instances between 1952 and 2004. “It is a customary course of undertaken by the Election Fee to make sure accuracy. It’s stunning that Mr Stalin now finds fault with it,” he stated in a put up quoting the Chief Minister.

Annamalai additionally reminded that the DMK had beforehand demanded comparable revisions. “In 2016, the DMK alleged the presence of 57.43 lakh bogus voters. Once more, in 2017, it demanded a statewide revision linking Aadhaar to voter IDs and referred to as for door-to-door verification,” he famous.

The previous state BJP president added that earlier than the RK Nagar bypoll, Stalin himself had approached the Madras Excessive Court docket searching for the deletion of the names of deceased and relocated voters. “The sanctity of democracy relies on the integrity of the electoral roll. One hopes the DMK remembers its personal stand and avoids one other episode of selective amnesia,” Annamalai remarked.

Rejecting Stalin’s declare that conducting the SIR through the monsoon was meant to help the BJP, Annamalai stated, “The Election Fee is an unbiased physique that ensures transparency in each election. Casting aspersions on its course of solely betrays insecurity.”

With each the DMK and the BJP stepping up their campaigns forward of the 2026 Meeting elections, the disagreement over the voter roll revision has deepened political polarisation in Tamil Nadu, setting the stage for a fierce battle over electoral credibility and accountability.