India Block MPs march to Election Commission Headquarters, sit on road after being stopped near NITI Aayog

Opposition India Bloc MPs on Tuesday started a march from Parliament to the Election Commission headquarters in protest against alleged vote theft and Special Intensive Revision of Voter List (SIR).

This march was taken out amid the ongoing protests across the country against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.

But these MPs have been stopped in front of the NITI Aayog office.

This place is located between NITI Aayog and Akashvani Bhawan, on the road that leads to the Election Commission Headquarters.

After being stopped from going further, opposition MPs protested by sitting on the road.

Opposition MPs were holding cutouts depicting Gyanesh Kumar in RSS uniform.

They raised slogans like "BJP is the Chief Election Commissioner", "Vote thief, leave the throne" and "Democracy is not for sale".

Rahul Gandhi said in a post on Twitter, "Gyanesh, Gyanesh it's done bro. It's time to resign."

Many MPs including Mallikarjun Kharge, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Akhilesh Yadav were stopped by the police on Parliament Street. After this the MPs staged a protest there.

The protest took place a day after the Supreme Court had said that it had not approved any amendment to Form 6.

The opposition is alleging irregularities in the SIR of voter lists.

During India Bloc's protest march in Delhi, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav alleged that the Election Commission acted dishonestly during the elections of 2017, 2019, 2022 and 2024.

Akhilesh Yadav also alleged that the Election Commission in West Bengal "played the game in a completely fearless manner".

Referring to the Chandigarh mayor election controversy, he said, "Who can forget the game of Chandigarh?"

In view of the march, heavy security arrangements and barricading were made around the Parliament and Election Commission headquarters.

Security personnel were deployed in the area much before the arrival of the MPs.

Heavy presence of Rapid Action Force (RAF) personnel was seen around Akashvani and Election Commission headquarters.

India Block leaders also want to meet President Draupadi Murmu.

The protest was called after a meeting of 19 opposition parties on September 30.

Cockroach Janata Party founder Abhijeet Deepke has announced a protest from Jantar Mantar on October 10.

On Monday, CJP had welcomed the proposed demonstration of India Block.

The party said that its program of October 10 should be seen as a broad call of the youth rather than any one organization.