EC placed people under duress to prove citizenship, threat of disenfranchisement:Stalin

Chennai, Nov. 14 -- Continuing his tirade against the Election Commission and the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and ruling DMK president MK Stalin on Friday charged the Election Commission withplacing people under duress and compulsion to prove their citizenship or face disenfranchisement.

"People are under compulsion to prove their Indian citizenship or else face the threat of disenfranchisement.

The Election Commission has placed them under duress. So, wherever we go the discourse is about the ongoing SIR and the situationis such that we can't remain silent by ignoring it. For, there is the danger of people being stripped of their right to vote. And, you know, who has created this...