Trinamool Congress Holds Demonstration in Kolkata Demanding Chief Election Commissioner's Resignation

The Mamata Banerjee faction of the Trinamool Congress held a demonstration in Kolkata on Tuesday, calling for the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and the cancellation of the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls. Police blocked the party's planned march from Raja Bazar to Park Circus, citing lack of formal permission, though TMC leaders stated they had submitted an email request. Senior party leaders Kunal Ghosh and Dola Sen led the protest, which was held at Raja Bazar amid a visible police and central forces deployment.

Demanding the ouster of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and an end to the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls, Trinamool Congress members held a rally in Kolkata on Tuesday, though a planned march through the city was not authorised by local police. That campaign's lobbying effort translated into the outcome its organisers had set out to achieve. Addressing the assembled crowd, Ghosh contended that both Delhi and the BJP-led administration in West Bengal had been left on the back foot, while also noting that attendees had raised chants labelling Gyanesh Kumar a thief of votes and demanding his removal from the position. Adhikari, who holds the BJP's top state position, had indicated that police would be deployed to stop Mamata Banerjee's party from staging a procession ahead of Durga Puja, while Sen pointed out that across the five months prior, the party in power had not allowed the opposition to hold a single rally or march without a court order being required each time, and that senior administrative officers had announced just a day before that any such movement by the party would be stopped outright. Riot-control units turned water cannons on a crowd of students and young people who had gathered to take part in a march.

Trinamool Congress Holds Demonstration in Kolkata Demanding Chief Election Commissioner's Resignation

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