Addressing the house during the Motion of Thanks to the President’s address, the actor-turned-politician criticised the SIR of electoral rolls, describing it as a ‘disease’ that risks turning nearly one crore voters in Tamil Nadu into the “living dead on paper”.
“My imminent concerns are the forthcoming elections… I call it the spell-check story of the living dead. We want to cast our votes and commissions are checking our right to vote. They are checking the spellings and addresses, and that too erroneously,” he was quoted as saying by The Indian Express.
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He referred to Bihar as the “land of living dead” in an apparent reference to discrepancies in the final voter list following SIR, in which names of voters who were still alive were removed citing death.
“We just want to cast our vote. Spelling mistakes are a curse only for languages. Modern literature forgives these in favour of content, as does the Internet. The
Election Commission obviously does not. EC does not mean English coaches,” he said.
He also extended his support to West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, who has stepped up her fight against SIR in the Supreme Court. “My Didi from Bengal also lamented the same at the ECI office… She is litigating it in the Supreme Court as we speak now. ECI is surely facilitating the spread of this disease,” he added, according to The New Indian Express.
Haasan emphasised the transient nature of power, asserting that no individual is immortal and no government can or should aim for permanency. “No government in the history of this world has achieved it and none ever will. This government also falls under the universal unwritten political law,” he added.
Addressing the youth, he appealed to the house to recognise that “children and Gen Z are watching”. He urged the leaders to let them grow up within a “growing progressive democracy” so that the future “will be ours,” reported IANS.
In January, he alleged that people were facing inconvenience due to SIR process in the state. “It is a national inconvenience, shared by our sister states across the length and breadth of our motherland. Numerous exemplary gratia of voter confusion and distress have been brought to national attention,” the actor stated.
According to the Election Commission, Phase II of the exercise started in 9 States and 3 UTs, including Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Puducherry, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal in November.
