BJP national co-in charge for Tamil Nadu P. Sudhakar Reddy.
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BJP national co-in charge for Tamil Nadu P. Sudhakar Reddy on Friday took strong exception to the DMK’s opposition to the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Tamil Nadu. He also claimed some officials involved in the exercise as Booth Level Officers (BLOs) were not performing their duties properly due to “indirect pressure” from the DMK government.
Mr. Reddy spoke to The Hindu on the sidelines of a cluster-wise review meeting of the SIR exercise organised by the Tamil Nadu BJP at Kamalalayam, the party’s State headquarters in Chennai. “The exercise is being conducted by the Election Commission of India, an independent body, with the objective of cleaning the voter list. Unfortunately, in some areas of Tamil Nadu, the BLOs are not doing their work properly. The DMK government is indirectly exerting pressure on them,” he said.
The cluster-wise meeting, chaired by national general secretary Tarun Chugh, was meant to review the ongoing SIR in the State and to instruct the coordinators of the party’s booth level agents to ensure that the exercise was carried out without any issues.
Mr. Reddy said the National Democratic Alliance’s victory in the recent Bihar Assembly election had given fresh enthusiasm to BJP leaders and party workers in Tamil Nadu and other poll-bound States. “The BJP has been reaching out to the people of the State with its campaign highlighting the DMK’s misrule, corruption charges, law and order failures, and crimes against women and children. The people of Tamil Nadu are fed up with the so-called Dravidian model government,” he alleged.
Asked whether the BJP had identified any specific stronghold seats, Mr. Reddy said the central leadership would decide the number of seats to be negotiated with the AIADMK, in consultation with the State unit. “For now, our workers have been asked to go door-to-door and explain the Union government’s schemes. Every person is benefiting, directly or indirectly, from at least seven to eight schemes of the Centre,” he added.
Published – November 21, 2025 06:52 pm IST
