Chennai, June 30 -- Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) spokesperson Saravanan Annadurai on Tuesday said his party has signed the Opposition's joint letter to the Chief Justice of India against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process, alleging exercise is "arbitrary" and "anti-democratic."

Speaking to ANI, Annadurai claimed that the SIR process was aimed at disenfranchising voters.

"It operates on the premise of disenfranchising voters, whereas any democracy should be about franchising people. Universal Adult Franchise is the cornerstone on which any democracy functions. However, the current SIR process seeks to ensure that voters are weeded out of the electoral rolls. We have signed the petition demanding that such arbitrary exercises...