Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav, who along with other SP MPs and Opposition leaders from the INDIA bloc was taken into custody on Tuesday after police intercepted their march towards the Election Commission headquarters in Delhi, said they did not fear arrest. He also accused the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) of colluding with the BJP and demanded his resignation.
The protest against CEC Gyanesh Kumar, began from the Makar Dwar of Parliament as leaders and MPs of the INDIA bloc set out to highlight alleged irregularities in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the voter list and the broader election process. Delhi Police stopped the march midway, after which the Opposition MPs sat on the road and staged a sit-in.
“Those who fight for the country do not fear arrest,” Yadav said, alleging that the BJP and the CEC were one and the same. “There is a national consensus that Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar should resign,” he added. “The fewer times fraud or a scam is committed, the lower the risk of getting caught,” he said.
