CJP to start nationwide protest on October 2 if CEC Gyanesh Kumar does not resign

The Cockroach Janta Party on Friday said that it will launch a nationwide protest on October 2 if Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar does not resign by Saturday.

The campaign’s founder Abhijeet Dipke said that the agitation would begin in Mumbai and be taken to other cities. “This Gandhi Jayanti, let’s pledge to save democracy,” he added.

This followed the Cockroach Janta Party’s announcement on Thursday that it would launch the agitation if Kumar does not resign within 48 hours.

The campaign is also demanding criminal proceedings against Kumar after an investigation by The Indian Express on Wednesday revealed that two election commissioners had objected 14 times in 10 months to decisions about the poll panel’s special intensive revision of electoral rolls.

The newspaper reported that Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi formally objected to decisions related to the SIR, saying that some had been taken without their knowledge.

Their objections were reportedly related to the registration of new voters and changes to Form 6, appeals against the inclusion of voters in West Bengal and the handling of voter data in Goa, among other matters. Form 6 is used to register new voters.

In one written objection, Sandhu was quoted as having stated that the poll panel had acted against the advice of both commissioners and described the action...

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