The Congress on Tuesday (October 6, 2026) alleged that the West Bengal assembly polls were a “textbook case of mass manipulation and rigging” which was overseen by Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, and asserted that the “puppet” has to go but the “two puppeteers” too have to be held accountable.
In his post on X, Mr. Kumar, and Modi and Shah. Congress general secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh shared a screenshot of a media report that claimed that judges of more than a dozen Tribunals appointed in West Bengal on the orders of the Supreme Court to process SIR appeals, including those of 27 lakh deleted electors, have highlighted glaring gaps in a digital portal set up for them by the Election Commission of India ‘s IT division.
Ramesh said, “More skeletons are tumbling out of the Election Omission of India’s closet. The puppet has, of course, to go, but the two puppeteers too have to be held accountable, he said, in an apparent reference to Mr. “They stand brutally exposed and now it is only a matter of time for them to meet their reckoning,” Mr. Ramesh said. “Looks like the Parliament complex is already under an unprecedented security siege showing the extreme nervousness of the puppeteer pair,” Mr.
Today, MPs of the INDIA janbandhan plus other Opposition MPs, who have also been invited, will be marching peacefully to the Election Commission of India to demand the CEC’s resignation, the Congress leader said.
The Congress and other opposition parties demanded his immediate resignation, alleging that he betrayed the Constitution at the behest of the Prime Minister and home minister and unilaterally made changes to the form for the SIR process.
