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New Indian Express
04-08-2025
- Politics
- New Indian Express
Will take legal route to stop import of voters, says NR Elango
THANJAVUR: DMK's advocates wing secretary N R Elango has said that legal steps will be taken to prevent the inclusion of migrant workers in the poll rolls of Tamil Nadu. He was responding to reporters' apprehension about the probability of migrant workers getting included in the electoral rolls for 2026 election. Elango said the number of migrant workers from other states in Tamil Nadu will be more than 6.5 lakh. 'By adopting correct legal procedures, we will ensure that those who are not eligible are not included in the electoral rolls.' Participating in a training programme, Elango said DMK cadre know about the Special Intensive Revision in Bihar. The advocates wing will guide the party cadre in 2026 too like it had done before.
New Indian Express
02-08-2025
- Politics
- New Indian Express
AIADMK afraid of CM's name in schemes: DMK
CHENNAI: NR Elango, secretary of the DMK's Advocates Wing, on Friday said opposition leader Edappadi K Palaniswami has resorted to 'lowly actions' as he is unable to bear the public's support for the initiatives of the Dravidian model government. 'Hence, the AIADMK has approached the court against the use of the chief minister's name in government schemes,' he said. Elango said the Ungaludan Stalin grievance redressal camps have been successful across the state, while the health department's Nalam Kaakum Stalin scheme will be launched on August 2. Listing the 'Amma' schemes implemented during the Jayalalithaa's term as chief minister, such as Amma canteens, Amma water and Amma mini clinics, Elango added, 'AIADMK is afraid of the present CM's name.'He further remarked that by opposing the use of photographs of former chief ministers in schemes, the AIADMK has 'betrayed their leaders Anna, MGR and Jayalalithaa.' Meanwhile, BJP state president Nainar Nagenthran welcomed the Madras High Court's order restraining the state government from using the name of any living personality or photographs of former CMs and ideological leaders for welfare schemes. In a post on X, he said the court had put an end to the 'empty advertisements' of the DMK government using public funds. 'Stalin should, at least from now, understand that government welfare schemes are meant to benefit the people, not to promote himself,' Nagenthran said.
Indian Express
17-07-2025
- Politics
- Indian Express
After TDP, DMK suggests EC to allow Aadhaar, ration cards as valid date of birth proofs
Days after NDA ally, the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), batted for Aadhaar cards to be made a valid document as proof of date of birth in electoral roll revisions, the M K Stalin-led DMK on Thursday made a similar suggestion to the Election Commission (EC). The DMK's suggestion also comes days after the Supreme Court on July 10, while hearing a batch of petitions challenging the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in poll-bound Bihar, urged the poll body to consider allowing voters to furnish Aadhaar cards, voter IDs and ration cards as valid documents to prove their date and place of birth. The apex court asked the EC to file its counter-affidavit by July 21. A DMK delegation, headed by party MP N R Elango met Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar, and election commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi, as a part of the EC's meetings with national and state parties to take feedback on further strengthening electoral processes. Terming the meeting with the EC as 'fruitful' on social media, Elango said the poll panel assured that it would look into four of the five suggestions that the party had made. On the inclusion of Aadhaar, the MP said that the EC said the matter was sub-judice. As reported by The Indian Express, the EC on July 5 wrote to Chief Electoral Officers (CEOs) of all states, directing them to begin preparations for a Bihar-like exercise with January 1, 2026, as the qualifying date. The DMK also urged the EC to implement its May 1 notification, which seeks to allow names of dead voters to be deleted by Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) after getting information and verification from the Registrar of Births and Deaths by the Booth-Level Officer (BLO) instead of waiting for a family member to file Form 7. Claiming that no steps had been taken to implement this, the DMK in its letter said, 'Unless names of deceased voters are deleted, the purification of electoral rolls will never be complete.' The DMK also called for better coordination between EC-appointed BLOs and Booth-Level Agents (BLAs), who are appointed by political parties. According to Elango, the DMK was informed that the EC was in the process of translating its handbooks and manuals into Tamil and other official languages. Claiming that the new process of counting postal votes was 'causing confusion', the Stalin-led party also wanted the EC to revert to the earlier process, in which the penultimate round of counting EVM votes was withheld till postal ballots were accounted for. This process was changed in 2019 and allowed votes from EVMs to be counted irrespective of the status of postal ballot counting.
