The SIR exercise being conducted by the ECI is getting more maliciously curiouser by the day. While @ 65 lakh voters are on the verge of being disenfranchised in Bihar, reports of "adding" 6.5 lakh persons as voters in Tamil Nadu is alarming and patently illegal. Terming them "permanently migrated" (whatever does the term mean ?) is an insult to the migrant workers and a gross interference in the right of the electorate of Tamil Nadu to elect a government of its choice. Does not the migrant worker return to Bihar to cast his vote during elections or during festivals ? If the migrant worker has a fixed address and permanent home in Bihar how can he/she be legally enrolled as a voter in Tamil Nadu or for that matter any other state ? If his/ her family resides in Bihar, how can the migrant worker be considered as "permanently migrated" to Tamil Nadu? The ECI is grossly abusing the constitutional powers vested in it by trying to alter the demography of a state simply to help the BJP win elections, This should be fought tooth and nail by one and all.
