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BJP MLA Demands Padma Vibhushan for CEC Gyanesh Kumar Amidst Protests
- •Protests erupted from Delhi to Mumbai against CEC Gyanesh Kumar over allegations of voter list manipulation to benefit a specific party.
- •In Delhi, AAP leader Saurabh Bhardwaj and RJD MP Manoj Jha were detained during protests at Jantar Mantar, leading to 11 metro station closures.
- •In Mumbai, the Cockroach Janata Party (Kajpa) led protests, supported by former CMs Uddhav Thackeray and Raj Thackeray.
- •West Bengal BJP MLA Rajesh Kumar demanded Padma Vibhushan for Gyanesh Kumar, praising his role in conducting "clean" and "impartial" elections in West Bengal.
- •The Nationalist Citizens Party of India (NCPI) also requested the highest honor for Gyanesh Kumar, citing his role in ensuring peaceful and reliable 2026 West Bengal assembly elections.
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Protests are taking place from Delhi to Mumbai due to allegations that CEC Gyanesh Kumar removed voters' names from the voter lists to favor a particular party, and amid opposition scrutiny over the Special Intensive Revision process and internal panel disagreements.
West Bengal BJP MLA Rajesh Kumar stated that Gyanesh Kumar did an exceptional job conducting peaceful, clean, and impartial elections in West Bengal without any pre-poll, election-day, or post-poll violence, justifying the demand for the Padma Vibhushan.
Jyoti Prakash Chatterjee, the national president of the Nationalist Citizens Party of India, wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to award the country's highest honor to CEC Gyanesh Kumar for conducting reliable and peaceful assembly elections in West Bengal.
