The Congress party has called for Kumar’s immediate resignation and former West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee demanded his arrest.
Opposition parties will move an impeachment motion against Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar , alleging he has “completely tarnished the dignity of his constitutional office,” in the wake of the Indian Express report.
We didn’t lose; we were made to lose.” Accusing Kumar of defying the 1995 Supreme Court judgement that said the CEC is not superior to other ECs, Singhvi said all decisions in EC should have gone by majority decisions and the objections of the two ECs should have been taken into confidence.
Congress’ Rajya Sabha MP and senior lawyer Abhishek Singhvi said “For even one second, such a person should not remain in office and he should resign. To be sure, the government has clarified that the objections were part of the “standard democratic process inside a constitutional body”. It has also said “differences are resolved by a majority vote”. In a post on X, former Bihar deputy chief minister and RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav said, “As I have said before and continue to say, we were defeated in the elections by the system and the machinery.
Opposition discusses joint strategy
The honesty of his intentions, his impartiality, and his ability to function independently have always been highly questionable. There is no doubt that if a special session of Parliament is convened, opposition MPs in both Houses will move an impeachment motion to remove him from office. Lok Sabha’s Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi posted a video cautioning the EC. “Vote chori (theft) is a crime against the Indian people and a direct attack on our constitution. The BJP, RSS and EC who organised it have committed an act of treason. Meanwhile, lawmaker and BJP leader Sambit Patra refuted to the allegations levelled by the Opposition. “If the three Election Commissioners who conduct elections in the country do not communicate, exchange views or consult one another, and simply keep agreeing with each other, then the Opposition parties say, ‘this is a dictatorship… and they simply keep saying yes to everything. They are all supporters of Modi.
On Wednesday, senior Opposition leaders held a discussion over phone to work out a joint strategy on the Gyanesh Kumar issue following the report that Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi formally objected at least 14 times over the past 10 months to decisions and orders of the Election Commission, including on additions, deletion and restoration of voters and changes to the voter registration process. On April 24, 2026, 73 opposition MPs had moved an impeachment motion to remove him from office, which remains pending even now. Because of a new technology backbone implemented by the Election Commission of India , and that the changes made in Form 6, which new voters have to fill, were against the law (the government has since clarified that the form itself wasn’t changed), the report also said that state officials in charge of electoral rolls found themselves unable to access the database.
Hours after the report broke, Congress’ communications chief Jairam Ramesh said, “The Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) has completely tarnished the dignity of his constitutional office. Justice will be served,” he said. Patra said, adding that the EC has made it clear that SIR, was carried out unanimously.
In the meantime, today his own two colleagues have fully exposed him.
