The resolution against Kumar was passed unanimously.
Nineteen opposition parties enacted an unprecedented public impeachment of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar for “overseeing and participating in a devious and malevolent criminal conspiracy orchestrated by the BJP” to steal elections while holding him responsible for “a manipulated, truncated and destructive special intensive revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls” and demanded his immediate removal and a trial for treason in a court of law.
Gyanesh Kumar won’t survive as CEC,” he said. “This is quite an absurd thing that is taking place. Do we not have any other way to ask this questions? What happened to the judiciary? We have nowhere else to go. Every other institution is closed for us. One in every seven India’s votes have been deleted. “We hold no personal animosity toward the CEC; our objective is to ensure that the Election Commission functions impartially, in alignment with the spirit of the Constitution, and retains the trust of the common citizen. Kharge argued that no one is advocating for the retention of deceased individuals on the electoral rolls. “Remove the names of anyone who should not be there. However, provide the data—state exactly how many such individuals exist. Moving the motion, Mr. Kharge levelled six charges against the CEC, alleging that he had worked under the directions of the Prime Minister and the Home Minister.
The 3.5-hour-long show, attended by more than 250 opposition lawmakers, was held at Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge’s residence at Rajaji Marg after 4 PM. At 7.05, the resolution to remove Kumar was adopted unanimously. This means, 2024 election was illegal and the BJP entered the Lok Sabha illegally. Earlier reporting noted: They levelled six charges against him, including conspiring with the ruling BJP to steal elections, deleting 13.2 crore voters through the special intensive revision (SIR) of voter lists, and acting at the behest of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah. Earlier reporting noted: The motion was initiated by Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, whose official residence at 10, Rajaji Marg, served as the venue for the proceedings.
Several speakers lambasted Kumar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and others the over SIR, alleged mass disenfranchisement and the “amending” Form 6 without Parliament’s knowledge. We must prevent the voting rights of marginalised sections, women, and the youth from being surreptitiously deleted via a computer by someone sitting in Delhi,” he said. The Modi government repeatedly uses the pretext of ‘infiltrators’ to mask its own failures and misdeeds,” he said.
Earlier reporting noted: The proceedings, which continued for three-and-a-half hours, were modelled on those of Parliament, replicating the setting of the Lok Sabha, with former Speaker Meira Kumar presiding over the session.
This is a political weapon that is going to give justice to the youth of India and people. This is our sacred duty for the Constitution. You can’t always hide behind the institution.
Lok Sabha’s Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi summed up the exercise and said, “This is not some talks taking place in a garden. Calling the Opposition’s show as “an extremely dangerous political weapon that is targeted to Modi, Shah and others who colluded” Gandhi said, “What these people are saying is that you (Kumar) are hiding behind the institution you had to protect. Gandhi warned Kumar and said “You have taken this game outside the legal framework, into rigging elections, you are our target. Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, who opened the debate, said, the motion aims to safeguard the dignity of a constitutional institution.
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