"Tamil Nadu is not Bihar, such tricks will not work here": DMK's Durai Murugan on proposition of SIR

Senior DMK leader and State Minister Durai Murugan on Thursday dismissed the proposition of Special Intensive Revision in Tamil Nadu asserting that the state is not like Bihar and here people were politically aware and could not be misledSpeaking to mediapersons in Vellore the minister drew a sharp comparison with Bihar stressing that Tamil Nadus governance and leadership were distinct compared to BiharTamil Nadu is not Bihar Tamil Nadu is a state where people are aware The governance there is not like here here we have the leadership of Thalapathy and such tricks will not work in Tamil Nadu or with our leader Murugan told reportersThe ministers remark came in response to discussions over the nationwide Special Intensive Revision SIR of the electoral rollsMeanwhile on Wednesday the Election Commission EC held a conference of Chief Electoral Officers CEOs from all States and Union Territories assessing their preparedness for the nationwide Special Intensive Revision SIR of the electoral rollsThis was the third Conference of Chief Electoral Officers this year The conference was inaugurated by Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar in the presence of Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek JoshiA presentation on the strategies constraints and best practices adopted was made by the CEO of Bihar so that the CEOs of the rest of the country learn from their experiences said EC in a press noteThe CEOs provided detailed presentations on the number of Electors the qualifying date of the last SIR and the electoral roll in their respective StateUT as per the last completed SIR The CEOs also presented the status of digitisation and uploading of the Electoral Roll after the previous SIR on the StateUT CEO website the EC said in the noteThey also provided the status of mapping current electors with those as per the last SIR in the StateUT it saidTo ensure that there is a uniform implementation of the Commissions initiative to ensure that no polling station has over 1200 electors the status of rationalisation of polling stations was also reviewedThe CEOs also provided suggested documents for the purpose of ensuring that no eligible citizen is left out of the Electoral Roll and no ineligible person is included in it It was reiterated that these documents should promote ease of submission for the eligible citizensThe Commission also reviewed the status of appointment and training of DEOs EROs AEROs BLOs and BLAs said the EC in the press noteIn its order on June 24 the EC had stated that SIR would be conducted across the countryThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever