Punjab Congress Turns up Heat on CEC Gyanesh Kumar: ‘Arrest Him, Halt SIR Before 2027 Election'
The party accused Gyanesh Kumar of subverting the electoral process and demanded his dismissal, an FIR and arrest after an Indian Express report on internal dissent.
- On Friday, hundreds of Punjab Congress workers staged a protest in Chandigarh demanding the dismissal and arrest of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, with police deploying water cannons to disperse the crowd marching toward the Election Commission office.
- The demonstration follows an Indian Express report revealing that Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi repeatedly flagged procedural changes allegedly executed without full Commission approval regarding electoral rolls and voter registration.
- Over 10 months, Sandhu and Joshi raised 14 formal written dissents challenging the centralisation of the ERONET electoral roll database and unilateral changes to new voter registration forms during the Special Intensive Revision exercise.
- Rejecting opposition allegations, the Election Commission stated that decisions taken by the three-member body over the past year were unanimous and carried full legal sanction, treating individual commissioner observations as suggestions.
- Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring announced the party will hold district-level protests starting Saturday to press demands for an FIR and immediate arrest of Kumar, alleging the electoral process was subverted.
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The absence of a few senior leaders, including former Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi, from the Punjab Congress unit’s demonstration on Friday in Chandigarh against Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar has again raised questions about the party’s internal cohesion.
'Seek Immediate Dismissal of CEC Gyanesh Kumar, His Arrest': Sandeep Sandhu
The Punjab Congress organised a protest march to the Election Commission office in Chandigarh demanding the dismissal and arrest of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. Speaking on the protest, Punjab Congress General Secretary Captain Sandeep Sandhu accused the Chief Election Commissioner of taking unilateral decisions against the consensus of two fellow Election Commissioners. Sandhu noted that the two commissioners sent disagreement not…
Punjab Cong holds protest, demands dismissal of CEC Gyanesh Kumar
Chandigarh, Sep 25 (PTI) Punjab Congress, led by state unit chief Amrinder Singh Raja Warring, staged a protest on Friday demanding the dismissal and arrest of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, with the police using water cannon on protesters as they tried to march towards the Election Commission office in Chandigarh to gherao it. Several […]
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