Chennai, Oct. 28 -- The INDIA bloc's allies in Tamil Nadu, known as the Secular Progressive Alliance led by the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) on Monday released a joint statement wherein they accused the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government at the Centre of continual threats to democratic principles, in response to the Election Commission of India (ECI)'s announcement on the conduct of Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls earlier in the day.

In the statement, the SPA stressed the need for an approach to the SIR that emphasised the time needed to conduct such a complex exercise, instead of what they termed a "hasty approach".

The state government has called for an all-party meeting on the matter on Novem...