The Opposition bloc INDIA and the BJP will hold rival marches in Delhi today with the Opposition targeting the Election Commission over alleged electoral roll irregularities and the ruling party raising the 1984 anti-Sikh riots to attack the Congress.
Ramlila Maidan protest: The BJP has dismissed the Opposition bloc INDIA’s exercise as “melodrama”
The rally follows an Opposition programme yesterday in which Kharge moved a symbolic resolution containing six allegations against the CEC. One group that’s not attending is the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) whose founder Abhijeet Dipke met Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee in Delhi yesterday and thanked her for supporting the outfit’s youth-led protests. “We are not aligned with any political party, nor are we against democratic protests.
Because the way she supported our first Jantar Mantar movement, she was always so strongly with the youth movement, “I just came to say thank you to Didi. It accused Kumar of conspiring to influence elections, deleting 13.2 crore voters, changing Form 6 without parliamentary oversight and taking control of electoral rolls through the ECINET. “We have covered the entire area with 200 to 250 CCTV cameras.
He, however, said the CJP would retain its independent identity and not join the Sunday protest by the opposition parties. When Saurav and Ashutosh were arrested by the Delhi Police, even then Didi stood with us very firmly,” he said. The organisers also have their own control room and we are working together to ensure the security of this entire area,” senior police officer Rohit Rajbir said. Congress General Secretary KC Venugopal, who announced the November 1 rally last month, called the campaign “Chalo Dilli, Vote Bachao, Desh Bachao”, referring to the theme of the protest against the CEC as a “campaign to stop electoral manipulation to save the country. Automotive Parts Merchant Association president Vinay Narang said traders supported the right to protest but opposed the venue and timing. But the timing and the venue are completely wrong,” he said. The association’s vice-president, Ravinder Singh Kohli, said daily-wage workers would be hit first. “The worst hit are the daily-wage earners, coolies, porters and cart-pullers who depend on daily earnings of Rs 200-300 to feed their families,” he said.
