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New Delhi: Amid the uproar over the Election Commission of India’s conduct of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls and the internal dissent within the poll body, top leaders of the opposition INDIA alliance met on Wednesday (September 30) to announce a collective strategy including district level protests, a march to the Election Commission and a major rally in the national capital. The leaders decided that the SIR and the Election Commission needed to be fought “legally and politically” including challenging the 2023 appointment of election commissioners law that provides them with immunity.

Following the meeting Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge while addressing a press conference said that the Election Commission is being used like a “puppet” by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah.

The leaders’ six-point action plan included “Save Democracy” marches at the district level from October 2-8, opposition MPs march to the Election Commission on October 6, a meeting with the President in the second week of October, five major rallies by the opposition including a major rally in New Delhi on November 1 as well as an appeal for the early resolution of all cases relating to the SIR and electoral matters pending before the Supreme Court.

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