The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, in a meeting of its MPs which was chaired by party president MK Stalin on Saturday, adopted a resolution seeking the removal of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over alleged irregularities in the special intensive revision (SIR) exercise.
DMK meeting highlights party’s early opposition to SIR
During the meeting, which was held to discuss various issues including SIR of electoral rolls, the party passed four resolutions and adopted three demands. The first resolution sought the removal of CEC Gyanesh Kumar, while the second extended support to the protests being held by student organisations against the CEC and SIR. C) Submission of a petition to the President of India. DMK MPs further claimed that the Congress’s criticism of SIR, and its refusal to speak about the exercise in Kerala and Tamil Nadu, amounts to “double standard.
The meeting was held at 11 am on Saturday at the Murasoli Maran Meeting Hall in the DMK headquarters at Anna Arivalayam in Chennai.
The party also passed a resolution extending support to student organisations protesting against the CEC, while accusing the Congress and Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) of “double standards”, ANI news agency reported. The third resolution condemned the TVK and Congress for what the DMK described as their “double standards”, and the fourth called for party a petition to the President of India seeking corrective measures to address electoral irregularities, according to ANI. The party also demanded an inquiry into the conduct of CEC Gyanesh Kumar, according to ANI. If irregularities have occurred during the SIR, the same concerns must apply to every state, the MK Stalin-led party said.
