India bloc parties likely to meet on September 30 to discuss EC related concerns: Report
Opposition leaders said 14 objections by two election commissioners show the Special Intensive Revision needs scrutiny and a wider protest plan.
- On Tuesday, Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi led INDIA bloc leaders on a protest march from Parliament toward the Election Commission headquarters in New Delhi, demanding Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar's resignation before police halted the march near NITI Aayog office.
- The protest centered on opposition demands for Gyanesh Kumar's resignation and withdrawal of the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls, which Congress Rajya Sabha MP Ranjeet Ranjan said affects 13 crore voters and prompted Supreme Court criticism over Form 6 changes.
- During the standoff at Akashvani Bhawan, Rahul Gandhi climbed multi-layered steel barricades and waved the Tricolour. Challenging police restrictions, Gandhi asked officers: "Just name a place, and I will sit there."
- The Election Commission clarified that "no request for a meeting on Tuesday had been received from any political party whatsoever," while police detained leaders from Congress, Trinamool Congress, Samajwadi Party, NCP, Shiv Sena , Left, RJD and Biju Janata Dal.
- Congress will hold protests at block and district levels from 10 to 20 October, followed by the INDIA bloc's "Vote Bachao, Desh Bachao" campaign from 25 October to 25 November at village level, culminating in a major rally at Ramlila Maidan on 1 November.
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Rahul Gandhi was quickly released, according to the Agence France-Presse. The Indian opposition officials accuse the Electoral Commission of India, long regarded as the guarantor of the world's largest democracy, of having mistakenly removed millions of voters.
INDIA bloc protest march against CEC: Rahul, Priyanka in standoff with police at Akashvani Bhawan premises
New Delhi, Oct 06: High drama unfolded at the INDIA bloc march from Parliament Street to the Election Commission headquarters here on Tuesday as Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra along with some others entered the Akashvani Bhawan premises in a bid to reach the poll body's office. Several opposition leaders, including Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav and Trinamool Congress MPs Abhishek Banerjee and Derek O'Brien, were d…
Ruling party accuses opposition Congress of ‘trying to create anarchy’ by using Election Commission
Police Detained Opposition MPs in New Delhi. They Demanded the Resignation of the Chief of Elections
INDIAN police have detained opposition leader Rahul Gandhi at a protest against electoral changes that allegedly benefit Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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