India, Nov. 6 -- Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan announced on Wednesday that the State will legally challenge the implementation of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. The decision was taken at an all-party meeting held online by the CM.

All parties except the BJP backed the Government's move, an official release said. The chief minister said that, with local body elections approaching, legal advice would be sought both by the Government and by political parties on how to question the SIR.

He added that conducting a special intensive revision of the voter list based on the 2002 rolls, when an updated list from the last Lok Sabha election is already in force, was "unscientific" and carried "malicious intent"....