CWC meets today for CEC’s ouster

NEW DELHI, Sept 28: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge has called a meeting of the party's working committee on Tuesday where the issue of "internal differences" in the Election Commission would be discussed and a roadmap for CEC Gyanesh Kumar's removal would be chalked out.

Announcing this, Kharge said that the Election Commissioners have "exposed" the working within the poll body by raising concerns over Special Intensive Revision (SIR) and changes in Form 6 for enrolling new voters, besides additions and deletions from voter lists and centralised control over the electoral roll database.

He said the issue is very serious and concerns the survival of democracy in the country and has to be taken up on priority.

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"I have called a Working Committee meeting for tomorrow, where we will discuss the issue and all the Working Committee members will give their suggestions.

"We are going to fight this seriously. This issue concerns the entire country, the existence of our democracy and the survival of our country. That is why we are very serious about this issue," he told reporters.

"The Election Commission's own people have exposed them. Even a former chief secretary of Kerala has said that the CEC himself told him to contest the election. This means that he is propagating the BJP's philosophy and has become a BJP worker," he claimed.

"Gyanesh Kumar should resign. We have to take action against him, even after his resignation," the Congress chief said.

The CWC meeting, chaired by Kharge, is likely to be attended by former party chief Rahul Gandhi, Congress general secretaries Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Jairam Ramesh, KC Venugopal, among others. (PTI)