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Left Parties Demand CEC Kumar's Removal, Announce Week-Long MP Protest
- •Left parties in Madhya Pradesh demand the removal of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.
- •The Communist Party of India (Marxist), CPI, and CPI (ML) will launch a week-long campaign from September 26 to October 2.
- •Protests, public meetings, and effigy burning are planned across the state.
- •They also demand an end to the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process, restoration of wrongfully deleted voter names, and impartial functioning of the Election Commission.
- •Left leaders allege CEC Kumar ignored objections from other Election Commissioners, affecting the poll panel's impartiality, and seek a new selection system for election commissioners.
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Left parties in Madhya Pradesh, including CPI(M), CPI, and CPI (ML), announced a week-long campaign from September 26 to October 2 to press for the removal of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. The campaign will feature public meetings, protests, and the burning of effigies.
Left parties demanded that the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process of electoral rolls be stopped, wrongfully deleted voter names be restored, and impartiality of the Election Commission be ensured. They also proposed changing the appointment system to a three-member committee comprising the Prime Minister, the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, and the Chief Justice of India.
The Congress announced it would take to the streets starting September 28 to demand the resignation of CEC Gyanesh Kumar. State Congress chief Jitu Patwari stated that the party plans to gherao the office of the chief electoral officer in Bhopal.
