According to sources, members of the INDIA bloc will gather at Samvidhan Sadan's Central Hall on Friday at 3 p.m. and may stage another demonstration over suspected "vote chori." Additionally, the opposition bloc has requested and is awaiting a meeting with President Droupadi Murmu. "All options are on the table" if a meeting is denied, according to sources.
According to the sources, potential locations for the next round of protests against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls include Seva Teerth, Rashtrapati Bhavan, the Vice-President's residence, and the homes of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah. If the protest takes place, it would be the fourth day in a row that the opposition has been agitating.
The INDIA group had asked for a meeting with President Murmu and was awaiting a response from Rashtrapati Bhavan, according to Congress general secretary (organization) K C Venugopal on Thursday. He stated that the President's office requested the names of the leaders who would attend after the initial letter requesting a meeting was sent on October 2.
Venugopal had stated that the bloc had not heard back yet and would wait till Friday. "We submitted the request again on October 5, along with the names, seeking an appointment on October 7, 8, or 9."
The opposition's most recent action coincides with an ongoing campaign against the CEC and purported voter roll manipulation. Leaders of the INDIA bloc staged a sit-in at Mahatma Gandhi's tomb in Rajghat on Thursday, accusing the CEC, Prime Minister Modi, and Home Minister Shah of "hijacking" the nation through a criminal plot involving vote chori.
The opposition leaders vowed to keep up their agitation until Kumar resigned, and the Rajghat rally marked the third day in a row of protests. Earlier, over two days of protests, police arrested and forcibly removed a number of leaders, including Rahul Gandhi. The leaders met at Rajghat on Thursday to offer flowers and offer prayers for "wisdom to the BJP government and the chief election commissioner."
Rallies and "Save Democracy" marches were part of the united action plan on the SIR problem that the INDIA bloc finalized last week.
After The Indian Express revealed that Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi had recorded objections at least 14 times over the previous ten months, mostly against decisions and orders pertaining to the SIR of electoral records, the opposition intensified its campaign.
The Election Commission responded to the findings by stating that disagreements and observations were a typical component of discussions in any organization. It insisted that all of its instructions adhered to established statutory procedures and had full legal justification.
