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New Delhi: After two days of confrontations with Delhi Police as they sought to protest against the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar, demanding his resignation over the conduct of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter rolls, Opposition MPs on Thursday (October 8) paid a symbolic visit to Gandhi Samadhi at Raj Ghat.

Unlike the past two days, when their protests ended in police detentions, Thursday’s protest was calm with the Delhi Police, RAF and other security personnel allowing the MPs, packed in three buses, to visit Raj Ghat.

At Raj Ghat, the Opposition MPs sat on a silent protest where they offered floral tributes and prayed. The silent protest came, like on Wednesday, after a lunch meeting at Moet’s restaurant in Connaught Place. On Wednesday, the MPs had lunch at Sagar Ratna. They had subsequently boarded three buses to attempt to reach a heavily barricaded Jantar Mantar, when the police stopped and subsequently detained them.

“This is the third day of our protest. We have protested peacefully and raised people’s issues. All of us went to Gandhi Ji’s memorial site and prayed that the Modi government be blessed with wisdom, so that these people stop vote theft. Those who engage in vote theft should resign,........

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