New Delhi, Oct. 6 -- Senior Congress leader and Rajya Sabha MP Jairam Ramesh on Tuesday launched a sharp attack on the Central government and Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar, citing a media report that over a dozen judicial tribunal officers in West Bengal had flagged severe functional deficiencies in the Election Commission's appeal portal.

His remarks came ahead of a planned protest march by Members of Parliament from the INDIA bloc and other opposition parties to the Election Commission of India (ECI) headquarters to demand the resignation of the CEC.

In a post on social media platform X, the Congress leader alleged that the previous West Bengal Assembly elections were manipulated, claiming that the poll panel chief a...