The removal of chief election commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar would be the first step towards restoring the country’s democratic institutions, Lok Sabha Opposition leader Rahul Gandhi said on Sunday.
He also took a dig at Gandhi over his political ambitions, saying: “If you want to become PM, stay in mock parliament your entire life; your turn won’t come. This is the theft of every voice of India. “This theft of votes is no ordinary theft.
Shah said the Congress had to answer for the violence and accused the party of insensitivity towards the victims by holding its rally on the anniversary. This is called treason,” Rahul Gandhi said at the INDIA bloc rally at Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan, speaking in Hindi. “Without Gyanesh Kumar, neither would Narendra Modi have become Prime Minister nor Amit Shah the Home Minister,” he argued, calling the last Lok Sabha polls illegal. Earlier reporting noted: He cited what he had said about the impact of the coronavirus pandemic of 2020-21 to claim, “What I say always turns out to be true; doesn’t it?”
Earlier reporting noted: “This theft of votes is no ordinary theft.
Former Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar presided over the mock proceedings, during which Opposition leaders levelled six charges against the CEC over electoral irregularities and his handling of the SIR exercise. The Ramlila Maidan rally followed the INDIA bloc’s October 31 mock parliamentary proceedings against Kumar at Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge’s residence in New Delhi.
Addressing the INDIA bloc’s mega rally at Ramlila Maidan in New Delhi, the Congress leader stepped up his attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union home minister Amit Shah and Kumar over allegations of “vote chori (theft)”. The Opposition would hold them accountable and Gyanesh Kumar would “go to jail”, he said. Track live updates on INDIA bloc rally He said the Opposition’s campaign was not driven by animosity towards anyone but by its commitment to protecting the Constitution and ensuring that every citizen’s voice was heard.
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We are saying we will not let him go anywhere. The home minister recalled the violence that followed the assassination of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on October 31, 1984, in which thousands of Sikhs were killed, particularly in Delhi.
“Amit Shah says Narendra Modi will not go anywhere. We will take legal action against you and country will seek justice for this vote chori,” Gandhi said. “Gyanesh Kumar will be removed as CEC, he will go to jail,” Gandhi said. “This is not voice of one party or leader; this is voice of India’s youth, women, farmers, workers,” he added. “Rahul Gandhi’s November 1 ‘jalsa’ in Delhi will only rub salt in wounds of anti-Sikh riot victims,” Shah said.
