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Once again a political battle has erupted regarding the autonomy and impartiality of the country’s constitutional institutions. Amidst the protests by the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) and the opposition in the national capital Delhi, Jharkhand Pradesh Congress Committee President Keshav Mahato Kamlesh has launched a scathing attack on the Central Government and the Election Commission. While talking to the media, he bluntly said that “the bells of doom have rung and Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar will have to resign from his post at any cost”. This statement of the Congress State President has come at a time when the opposition is continuously taking to the streets and registering protests across the country against the allegations of voter list revision (SIR) and vote cutting.
Questioning the administrative measures taken to suppress the ongoing protests in Delhi, Keshav Mahato Kamlesh expressed serious doubts over the intentions of the Central Government. He said that suddenly closing the entry gates of metro stations in the capital Delhi, affecting the movement of passenger trains coming from other states, increasing the air fares wildly and deploying a large number of police forces from the neighboring states clearly shows that the government is badly scared. “What’s the matter with the mold?” Giving the slogan, the Congress leader said that if the Election Commission had actually conducted the elections in a fair and transparent manner, then today the government would not have needed to impose such huge restrictions and blockades to suppress the protests.
Keshav Mahato Kamlesh presented the figures while pointing fingers at the system and processes of the Election Commission. He said that in Haryana, Maharashtra, Bihar and different parts of the country, the work of Revision of Voter List (SIR), which should have been done to add votes of eligible citizens, was misused to filter out and remove names of valid voters. According to the Congress President, as part of a well-planned conspiracy, the names of about 13 crore eligible voters across the country have been removed from the voter list. Citing the evidence of vote theft and fraud raised by Rahul Gandhi from the streets to the Parliament, he said that this is the reason why the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Central Government are scared of the public anger.
In Jharkhand too, the wave of protest against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar has intensified. From Ranchi to Lohardaga, Congress workers celebrated ‘Black Day’ wearing black clothes and carrying placards and demonstrated fiercely at the district headquarters. Party leaders clearly say that the soul of democracy resides in the voting rights of its citizens, and when the highest body conducting elections is accused of bias, then the Chief Election Commissioner has no moral right to continue in office. Jharkhand Congress has announced that their mass movement is not going to stop until Gyanesh Kumar resigns and all the valid names removed from the voter list are re-added after conducting an independent investigation.
Keshav Mahato This aggressive stance of Kamlesh and the united attitude of the opposition parties have increased the diplomatic and political challenges for the central government. On one hand, Congress is calling it a fight to ‘protect democracy’ and ‘save the right to vote’, while the ruling party is terming these allegations as baseless and a prelude to defeat in the elections. However, this voice of protest raised from Jharkhand may take a bigger shape at the national level in the future. Now everyone’s eyes are on what official clarification the Election Commission gives on these serious claims and demands for resignation and what new turn this political battle takes in the coming days.