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India's 'cockroach' movement to protest from Oct. 2 if poll chief does not quit by Saturday
Advocate Shailendra Mani Tripathi filed a Supreme Court petition seeking prosecution of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and other officials over alleged statutory-duty violations during the electoral-roll revision.
The petition alleges that Form 6 and other election-related systems or decisions were changed without the concurrence of Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi.
It seeks restoration of the original Form 6, reversal or cancellation of disputed actions, and an investigation into the alleged deletion of 13 crore voter names.
The Election Commission said its decisions were unanimous and that internal notes and differing views are normal parts of institutional deliberation.
(Hanoi=Yonhap News) Correspondent Park Jin-hyung = As controversy arose in India over allegations that the election commission altered voter lists in favor of the ruling party, Gen Z groups [called] 'Cockroach Nation...