India Opposition Leaders Plan Supreme Court March After Chief Justice Declines Meeting Request

India's I.N.D.I.A. bloc opposition parties proceeded with a planned march to the Supreme Court in New Delhi after Chief Justice Surya Kant declined a requested meeting with opposition leaders Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge. The leaders had sought the meeting to submit a memorandum calling for the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, suspension of the special intensive revision of electoral rolls, and a return to paper ballots. The BJP and Election Commission have rejected the allegations of electoral manipulation.

Bloc members aligned with D.I.A. prepared to march on the Supreme Court building, where their stated aim was to press for the ouster of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and an end to the ongoing special intensive revision of voter rolls. Rahul Gandhi, serving as Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, and Mallikarjun Kharge, holding the equivalent position in the Rajya Sabha, had each addressed a letter to the Chief Justice of India requesting a Monday appointment between 4 pm and 5 pm, with the purpose of presenting a memorandum that called for an end to alleged electoral irregularities, a halt to the SIR exercise, the resignation of Kumar, and a return to paper ballots — and a source indicated that the Chief Justice's office had sent a response to those letters through the official email addresses of both leaders. On Saturday in Delhi, Gandhi took to X to address the police response to a demonstration, with the opposition leader's post asserting that both law enforcement officers and BJP members had used force against attendees who had gathered to protest without violence — a statement that began by noting the nation's young people had come out to do exactly that. Attendees arrived without hostility or complaint, their presence rooted in nothing more than a willingness to take part. Gandhi called on young people, opposition parties, and civil society groups to join a march toward the Supreme Court the following day, framing the gathering as one that would cut across lines of party, gender, caste, community, and state; in Bengaluru on the same Sunday, Kharge attributed the unrest seen across the country to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah, pointing to the presence of heavy police deployments, restrictions placed on movement, and the detention of large numbers of people during the protests as evidence for that position. On that Friday, I.N. Both the BJP and the Election Commission put forward formal rejections of the Opposition's allegations that the electoral process had been manipulated.

India Opposition Leaders Plan Supreme Court March After Chief Justice Declines Meeting Request

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