‘Resign, turn approver’: Rahul Gandhi's message to CEC as INDIA bloc takes fight to SC

Rahul Gandhi on Monday asked Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar to resign and turn approver, while addressing the media over the issues surrounding SIR and alleged police brutality over the weekend in the national capital.

He said Kumar was not the "mind behind" the wrongdoing and that "bigger powers" were behind him. He said this ahead of the INDIA bloc's march to the Supreme Court to file a petition over irregularities in the functioning of the Election Commission. The march is currently underway.

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Rahul Gandhi, briefing the media, said the government was protecting Gyanesh Kumar and warned that moves to protect the CEC would only intensify the confrontation. Gandhi added the opposition bloc would continue its protests and movements unit Kumar stepped down from his role and there was a full revamp of the system in which elections are conducted in India.

Gandhi alleged that Delhi had effectively become a fortress with massive deployment of police and paramilitary personnel. He further said the government was using the personnel to stop people from joining the movement and claimed that a huge chunk of the force are sympathetic to the opposition and protestors' demand. He added that the way protests were handled have only made the INDIA bloc and students stornger.

The Member of Parliament said the opposition would be approaching the Supreme Court later in the day and file a petition with the apex body. He further appealed to the masses regaring joining the agitation and described the Constitution as his religion and the voice of the country.

"We will not stop, since truth is with us," Gandhi said. He called on everybody to gather at the Connaught Place-Barakhamba Road junction and march to the Supreme Court.