Agartala, Sep 25 Hundreds of Congress leaders, workers and supporters on Friday burnt an effigy of CEC Gyanesh Kumar, demanding his arrest over his alleged role in “destroying democracy” in the name of the SIR of electoral rolls.
The protest march, attended by Tripura Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) president Asish Kumar Saha and senior Congress MLA Sudip Roy Barman, started from the party headquarters and passed through several important locations in the city.
Holding banners that read ‘CEC Gyanesh Kumar should be arrested immediately for ‘vote chori’, Congress workers were heard chanting “Vote chor gaddi chhod” amid tight security.
“Our leader Rahul Gandhi has been raising the issue of vote chori for the past two-and-a-half years, but some people mocked it. Now it is crystal clear that elections were rigged in states like West Bengal, Haryana, Maharashtra, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh with the help of Gyanesh Kumar,” Roy Barman told reporters.
Blaming Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah over the issue, he alleged that the CEC did his best to ensure a favourable mandate for the BJP.
Issuing a warning to Kumar, Roy Barman said “very cruel justice” was waiting for the CEC for allegedly destroying the foundation of the country’s democracy by manipulating electoral rolls.
Roy Barman added that the Congress Working Committee (CWC) is scheduled to meet on September 29 in Delhi to finalise the party’s strategy following the alleged exposure involving the CEC and the Modi government.
“We will launch a massive movement in Tripura to expose the CEC’s anti-national activities. Kumar should be arrested immediately on sedition charges because he has betrayed the people of India,” he said.
(PTI News)
