Cockroach Janata Party founder Abhijit Dipke said on Thursday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi “may have the power now, but we have the streets and we will reclaim our power from here,” as thousands gathered at Bengaluru’s Freedom Park to protest against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls and demand the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.
“People who were declared dead are standing here alive. So the death that has taken place is not the death of these people. Who are these people? “They have insulted the voters of the country. It’s only once in five years these politicians come pleading to us. “Our fight is not merely for the resignation of Kumar. Even if he goes, another person may come in his place. That’s not what we want. It included the SIR tribunal and a separate protest on women’s safety.
Rathee questioned the alleged removal of 70 lakh voters in West Bengal before the elections and their subsequent addition to the rolls. He also questioned the deletion of more than 40 lakh names in Bihar and the subsequent disclosure of the names following a Supreme Court direction. “In UP, over 14 lakhs were ‘added’ suddenly. The protest began around 11 am and continued through Thursday evening.
Dipke said people whose names had allegedly been recorded as belonging to deceased voters were present at the protest. It is the death of the democracy of this country,” he said. even though EROs wanted to add, ECI didn’t allow,” he said While in Goa. Prakash Raj said voters were being forced to seek restoration of a right they should not have had to fight to retain. Now we are made to beg in front of their offices for our votes,” he said. He said removing Kumar would not address what he described as the larger issue. We want the SIR to be scrapped totally,” he said. Organisers said people from across Karnataka who claimed to have been affected by the electoral-roll revision also attended the tribunal.
Because i shout on the street that corruption has increased, chief minister DK Shivakumar cannot be removed,” Ashoka said, just.
Earlier reporting noted: BENGALURU: Abhijeet Dipke, the founder of the Cockroach Janata Party, on Thursday alleged that voter deletions under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) were aimed at disenfranchising people opposed to the BJP and accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Election Commission of “undermining” democracy. Earlier reporting noted: Speaking at the “People’s Tribunal” organised by various civil society groups in Bengaluru, which was attended by YouTuber Dhruv Rathee and actor-activist Prakash Raj , Dipke said people whose names had allegedly been deleted from electoral rolls were present at the event to demonstrate that they were alive. Earlier reporting noted: “Narendra Modi became Prime Minister by deleting and stealing votes,” he charged.
“There has to be a lengthy discussion in Parliament, a majority has to be established, and the matter has to go before the President.
