India, Oct. 17 -- The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, in a meeting of its MPs which was chaired by party president MK Stalin on Saturday, adopted a resolution seeking the removal of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over alleged irregularities in the special intensive revision (SIR) exercise.

The party also passed a resolution extending support to student organisations protesting against the CEC, while accusing the Congress and Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) of "double standards", ANI news agency reported. The meeting was held at 11 am on Saturday at the Murasoli Maran Meeting Hall in the DMK headquarters at Anna Arivalayam in Chennai.

During the meeting, which was held to discuss various issues including SIR of electoral rolls, the ...