Left Parties Demand Removal of CEC and Halt to SIR
· India · The Hindu, Times of India
Members of the CPI(M), SUCI (Communist), and the CPI staged a protest in front of the Deputy Commissioner's office in Dharwad on Friday to demand the removal of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. The parties submitted a memorandum to the President through the Deputy Commissioner, calling for an immediate halt to the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls and the restoration of voting rights for wrongly excluded citizens. The protest followed a September 23 media report stating that Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi had recorded objections on 14 occasions over ten months regarding voter registration and deletion decisions. Left leaders expressed concern over the centralisation of electoral data, restrictions on constituency-level officials, and software limitations that prevented officials from recording eligibility determinations for 97 voters in Goa. They also proposed reforming the appointment mechanism for Election Commissioners to include th
Why it matters
The protests and internal dissent disclosures put pressure on the Election Commission over the transparency and management of electoral roll revisions.
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