In show of strength, INDIA bloc says protests will continue until CEC Gyanesh Kumar resigns

The Opposition INDIA bloc held its first joint press conference since nationwide protests demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar broke out. All India Students’ Association chief Neha Bora also joined the leaders of the coalition.

They said that the demonstration will continue until Kumar resigns. This came a day after Opposition leaders, including former Chief Ministers Mamata Banerjee and Akhilesh Yadav, joined by Bora, led a march towards the Supreme Court.

They filed a petition challenging the Election Commission’s special intensive revision of electoral rolls, seeking an independent audit of voter deletions, disclosure of the poll panel’s internal records and an interim suspension of the exercise.

On Tuesday, the Opposition leaders condemned the Delhi Police denotifying Jantar Mantar as a designated protest site and said that they “will fight this”.

Starting the press conference, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge said that the Opposition bloc will share details of the further course of action in the coming days.

“This is probably the first time that so many people have gathered in Delhi,” Kharge said while speaking about the march on Monday.

Sagarika Ghosh, an MP from the Banerjee-led faction of the Trinamool Congress, said that the protests by the Opposition would not stop until action is taken against all election officers who supervised Assembly polls in Maharashtra, Haryana, Bihar...

Read more