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New Delhi: Opposition members of the INDIA bloc stepped up their ongoing protest demanding Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation and a rollback of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls by taking out a march on Monday (October 12) in central Delhi to the Supreme Court of India, with the top leaders signing a joint petition raising the irregularities in the conduct of the exercise.

The march which saw several hundreds participating resulted in a show of opposition strength, cadre mobilisation while also including spontaneous public participation. The march to the Supreme Court marked a departure from the last two days when the Delhi Police had sought to crackdown on protesters in the capital with widespread detentions, including of journalists, while Delhi was turned into a fortress with movement restricted. 

On Monday however, the Delhi Police, RAF and other central forces stood aside and enabled the march as leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi was joined by other top leaders of the INDIA bloc including Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, NCP(SP)’s Supriya Sule, CPI(M)’s M.A. Baby, CPI(ML)’s Dipankar Bhattacharya, TMC MP Sagarika Ghose among others. The march came after Gandhi addressed a press conference issuing a call to the citizens to join him from Barakhamba Road to the Supreme Court. During the press conference Gandhi said that Kumar should........

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