Ferozepur, September 28
Thousands of Congress workers staged a massive protest here today demanding resignation and arrest of the Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar for subverting and sabotaging the democracy in the country at the behest of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the union Home Minister Amit Shah.
The protestors also burnt the effigies of the Prime Minister and the Chief Election Commissioner.
Speaking on the occasion, Warring said that Kumar had “subverted and sabotaged” the electoral process and noted that 13.8 crore voters had been “single-handedly disenfranchised” through deletion from electoral rolls.
Warring quoted the examples of the states of Bihar, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Haryana, saying the electoral outcome in those states was quite contrary to the ground realities and the public perception. He alleged that the Election Commission under Gyanesh Kumar was colluding with the BJP and the RSS and deleting the names of the voters they believe are against them. He pointed out, when Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha raised the matter three years ago the Election Commission tried to deny it. He said, now the two Election Commissioners had admitted what Rahul Gandhi has been saying for the last three years.
The PCC president cautioned the Congress workers in Punjab to be alert against the deletion of votes from the electoral rolls. He said, it was the standard practice of the Election Commission to carry out Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the states and delete votes to help the BJP and same thing was happening in Punjab. He said, 20 lakh votes had been deleted from Punjab electoral rolls so far and the figure could go up further.
Warring also lashed out at the Aam Aadmi Party government in Punjab saying the AAP and the BJP were the two sides of the same coin. He cited the examples of how the AAP subverted the results of the Municipal Committees in Punjab. The PCC president said that the AAP government was institutionalising the criminalisation of politics in Punjab. He apprehended that time was not too far when only the criminals and gangsters like Jaggu Bhagwanpuira and Gurpreet Sekhon, with dozens of serious criminal cases registered against them will be contesting elections.
Warring said, both Bhagwant Mann and Sukhbir Singh Badal were encouraging the gangster culture in Punjab. He arring also took a dig at Mann for surrendering to Delhi leaders pointing out how ten ministerial bungalows were allotted to unauthorised people from Delhi and Rajasthan. He said, while the outsiders were occupying these bungalows, the ministers were forced to stay in the guest houses.