The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam on Tuesday took a jibe at Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, urging him to clarify his stand on the special intensive revision (SIR) exercise in Tamil Nadu.
Why is he not endorsing Kharge jis statement that all State Governments elected after SIR should be dissolved? “Modi is an illegal Prime Minister, Shah is an illegal minister, and all the chief ministers who have been elected anywhere are illegal. All of them should be dissolved, elections should be held, and elections should be conducted through ballot papers,” he had said on Saturday (October 3).
DMK spokesperson Saravanan Annadurai, in a post on X, further questioned why Rahul had not “endorsed” Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge’s stand asking for the “dissolution” of all state governments elected after SIR began. He wondered if the Congress MP was too “afraid of Vijay” to speak about SIR in Tamil Nadu. In a post on his official X handle, Annadurai said, “What’s the stand of @RahulGandhi with regard to the deletions through SIR in TN. Kharge, who is the leader of opposition in Rajya Sabha, claimed the “entire country was being run on illegal elections”, PTI news agency reported.
Responding to Kharge’s remarks, the BJP demanded that he apologise for insulting the mandate of the people. Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi were stopped by cops on Parliament Street in front of the Akashvani Bhawan and the Niti Aayog office during their march to demand the CEC’s resignation. After being stopped, the opposition leaders sat in protest. Soon after, Rahul climbed the police barricades and waved the Tricolour. Rahul and Priyanka, along with other opposition leaders, then entered the Akashvani premises and were seen sitting there. The Lok Sabha LoP questioned the Election Commission for refusing to meet with the opposition leaders. We represent crores of Indians. – Why aren’t the Election Commissioners meeting us?
In a post on X, he said, “More than 300 Opposition MPs marched from Parliament to the Election Commission today to meet the Election Commissioners.
The Congress president also alleged that the ongoing SIR of the electoral roll had many irregularities and was undermining democracy, according to the PTI report. Congress leader Pawan Khera said the poll body office was “hardly 100 meters” from the Akashvani Bhawan. “The Election Commission is right next door, but they are not allowing the country’s Leader of the Opposition to go; he has been stopped,” ANI cited Khera as saying.
