The Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) on Saturday (October 31, 2026) carried out a symbolic “public impeachment” of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, unanimously adopting a motion by a show of hands.
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.
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. Senior INDIA bloc leaders, including Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi, occupied the front-row seats. Apart from Opposition MPs, civil society representatives, student leaders and voters who alleged that their names had been wrongfully deleted from electoral rolls during the SIR also took part in the proceedings. Kumar’s removal seven months ago, but their proposals had been rejected. CPI MP P. “In a democracy, people elect the government. He levelled six charges against CEC Kumar over alleged irregularities in the conduct of elections and the revision of electoral rolls.
He said 193 Opposition MPs had submitted notices in both Houses of Parliament seeking Mr.
The present exercise, he said, was intended to defend the dignity of a constitutional institution and restore public confidence in the Election Commission. Sandosh Kumar said the country was witnessing a reversal of the democratic experiment undertaken during the first general election. In SIR, the reverse is happening — the government is selecting the voters,” he said, describing the exercise as a “genocide of democracy”. Earlier reporting noted: Kharge accuses CEC Gyanesh Kumar of ‘treason’, levels 6 charges during INDIA bloc’s mock impeachment Congress president and Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday accused chief election commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar of committing “treason against the nation and the Constitution of India”. Earlier reporting noted: During the mock parliament held by INDIA bloc leaders in Delhi to publicly impeach Gyanesh Kumar, Kharge accused the CEC of being part of an alleged conspiracy “orchestrated by the BJP” to manipulate national and state elections by allowing unauthorised access to voter lists and facilitating the addition and deletion of voters.
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. “We are fighting to keep genuine voters on electoral rolls. It is the BJP which is protecting ghuspaithiyas .
The motion was initiated by Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, whose official residence at 10, Rajaji Marg, served as the venue for the proceedings.
The Opposition was compelled to hold a public impeachment because “every other institution and institutional direction” was closed to it, Mr. Gandhi said in his concluding remarks, warning that those involved in alleged electoral irregularities “would not escape accountability and would eventually have to face the representatives of the people”. The pot is calling the kettle black,” the Congress chief said, rejecting the BJP’s charge that the Opposition was seeking to protect so-called ‘infiltrators’ in the electoral rolls.
