Chennai, April 24 -- DMK spokesperson Sarvana Annadurai, in a veiled attack at the BJP, said that the reason for the high voting percentage in Tamil Nadu is that the number of voters has been reduced through the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise.

"The percentage is higher because the denominator has come down. This is elementary mathematics. You have brought the number of voters down by introducing SIR. Now you're saying, 'Wow, look at this poll percentage!' That is not something unprecedented, nor is this something which is out of the way, as some claim. Whoever tracks numbers, especially with regard to an election, they are very clear that this is a normal thing," he said.

He mocked the Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kuma...