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- Five Left political parties have issued a joint statement calling for the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.
- The groups are protesting against the special intensive revision of electoral rolls and alleged unilateral decision-making within the Election Commission of India.
- They are also demanding a change to the appointment process for Election Commissioners to align with a Supreme Court-proposed committee.
- The week-long nationwide demonstrations will take place from September 26 to October 2.
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- Nationwide protests from September 26 to October 2
- Potential changes to Election Commission of India administrative procedures
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M.A. Baby, D. Raja, and Dipankar Bhattacharya
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“It concerns the transparency and democratic functioning of the ECI and the protection of the fundamental democratic principle of universal adult franchise. Any system that makes the right to vote dependent on opaque, centrally controlled processes undermines public confidence in the electoral system”
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…and civil society organisations and expose the hollowness of claims that the SIR and electoral roll management process are transparent and decentralised. The issue, the Left parties said, goes far beyond the SIR. “ It concerns the transparency and democratic functioning of the ECI and the protection of the fundamental democratic principle of universal adult franchise. Any system that makes the right to vote dependent on opaque, centrally controlled processes undermines public confidence in the electoral system ,” the statement said. Published - September 24, 2026 09:16 pm IST…
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Named India · Election Commission of India · All India Forward Bloc · Communist Party of India (Marxist) · Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation · CPI · Dipankar Bhattacharya · D. Raja · Gyanesh Kumar · M.A. Baby · Revolutionary Socialist Party · Supreme Court
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