‘If Gyanesh doesn’t go…’: Aaditya Thackeray backs Dipke's call for protest against CEC; CJP founder reacts
Here's the latest protest news from across India:
Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray on Saturday backed Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke’s call for a nationwide protest if Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar did not resign by Saturday. The call came amid a row over the electoral process and the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls following a media report.
Adding to this, Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray backed Abhijeet Dipke's call for Gyanesh Kumar's resignation. (PTI) On Friday, Dipke opened up that he would launch a nationwide protest from Mumbai if Kumar did not resign by Saturday and expand it to cities across India on October 2. “This Gandhi Jayanti, let’s pledge to save democracy,” he wrote.
Meanwhile, The Shiv Sena (UBT) leader backed Dipke’s demand for Kumar’s resignation and shared Mumbai “will step out” in large numbers on October 2 against “vote chori”.
Notably, Earlier on Thursday, Thackeray shared the “timeline for the CEC to go has been set”. He wrote on X, “Change is coming, each one responsible for the Lost Decade of our country, must be brought to justice.”
As per the latest buzz, Responding to the Shiv Sena (UBT) leader, the CJP founder thanked him for backing their call to “save democracy”.
In further updates, Dipke, the founder and national convener of the CJP, on Thursday called for CEC Gyanesh Kumar to resign and threatened a "Jantar Mantar 2.0" protest if the demand was not accepted.
On top of that, His remarks came after a report by The Indian Express shared that Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi had formally raised objections at least 14 times over 10 months to decisions and orders they allegedly shared were taken without their knowledge.
The reported objections related to key parts of electoral-roll management, including adding, removing and restoring voters, changes to Form 6 and access to the Election Commission's electoral-roll database.
Source: Hindustan Times