The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), the Gen-Z youth protest movement whose sit-in at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar led to the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan in July, will hold a protest in Mumbai today to press for Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation .
A similiar protest has been announced by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), All India Students’ Association (AISA), National Students’ Union of India (NSUI) and Indian Youth Congress (IYC) at Jantar Mantar. “But I really appreciate the efforts of the INDIA alliance. The Election Commission later clarified that the three-member commission took all decisions, including those relating to the SIR, unanimously.
Asked about the planned protest by Opposition MPs on October 6 against the Election Commission, he said the CJP won’t be a part of any political programme and will remain an independent movement. The CJP and opposition parties have been criticising Gyanesh Kumar over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls and demanding his resignation after it came to light that Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi had recorded objections on at least 14 occasions over 10 months to decisions and orders, some of which they said were issued without their knowledge.
Every Indian must speak about election rigging and INDIA alliance should do it as well,” he said.
