Chennai, Aug. 2 -- As a fall out of the Election Commission's Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in poll-bound Bihar that resulted in mass deletion of eligible voters, political parties in Tamil Nadu are apprehensive of the poll panel granting voting rights to migrant workers from the North, fearing such a move would alter the political landscape of the state.
From the DMK and its allies to the ultra-Tamil nationalist Naam Tamilar Katchi (NTK) of Seeman has opposed any move to extend voting rights to migrant workers which would irreversibly change the electoral demography, threatening the interests of Tamil Nadu and Tamils.
The ECs reported move to register the migrants in the states of their domicile has evoked stiff re...