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TVK to Join INDIA Bloc National Protest Against Election Commission
- •VCK chief Thol. Thirumavalavan announced that TVK will soon participate in the INDIA bloc national protest against the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls.
- •TVK recently joined the opposition alliance and participated in its major protest in Chennai demanding the removal of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.
- •Leaders argued that the SIR exercise led to targeted voter deletions affecting minority and Scheduled Caste communities during the April assembly elections.
- •Thirumavalavan warned that the agitation against the electoral roll revision could grow into a massive nationwide people movement.
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The INDIA bloc constituents in Tamil Nadu staged a major protect democracy protest demanding the removal of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and opposing the Centre over alleged manipulation of electoral rolls during the Special Intensive Revision process.
VCK chief Thol. Thirumavalavan stated that after recently joining the Tamil Nadu unit of the INDIA bloc and participating in its protests, TVK will soon take part in the alliance's agitations against the Election Commission and Union government at the national level.
TVK leaders, including School Education Minister A Rajmohan, have consistently opposed the SIR exercise from the beginning, describing it as inherently anti-democratic and harmful to equality principles, and noted that the party challenged its implementation in the Supreme Court.
