New Delhi: Leaders and supporters of opposition parties under the INDIA bloc gathered at Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan on Sunday for a protest march against alleged electoral irregularities and to demand the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.
Several senior opposition leaders, including former Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, CPI(M) general secretary MA Baby, CPI general secretary D Raja and CPI(ML) Liberation general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya, assembled at Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge’s residence.
The leaders later left for Minto Road in an open bus to march towards Ramlila Maidan, where the protest was being held.
The gathering grew through the afternoon as party workers, supporters and members of youth and student organisations from various INDIA bloc constituents arrived at the venue.
Carrying placards, protesters raised slogans against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise and demanded Kumar’s resignation.
Political parties had mobilised their cadres from different states for the demonstration. While some supporters reached Delhi on Sunday morning, several others had arrived on Saturday or earlier to participate in the protest.
