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New Delhi: Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke on Thursday (September 24) demanded the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar Gupta within 48 hours due to the ongoing controversy surrounding Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls adding that a nationwide protest would be launched in case he did not resign.

“CEC is the biggest anti-national. Gyanesh Kumar is the biggest anti-national of this country. He should resign immediately because he is the biggest threat to India’s democracy. What did democracy mean in our country? Democracy meant that the people would elect the government. Since Gyanesh Kumar became the CEC, the government has been deciding who will be allowed to vote and who will not. Is this democracy? What kind of definition of democracy is this? You have turned the entire concept of democracy upside down,” Dipke said in a press conference in New Delhi.

“If within 48 hours Gyanesh Kumar doesn’t resign, the Cockroach Janata Party will start a nationwide agitation. We won’t step back till the time Gyanesh Kumar resigns,” the CJP founder added. He was accompanied by the outfit’s co-conveners Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka.

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Besides the resignation of Gyanesh Kumar, the CJP has demanded: a) initiation of criminal proceedings against the CEC and a clarification on who gave him orders, b) putting all upcoming elections on hold and freezing the SIR, restoring the January 2025 voter list and setting up an independent inquiry into........

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