New Delhi, Sept. 30 -- Presenting a united front against the Election Commission, the INDIA bloc parties on Wednesday demanded the immediate resignation of Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar, a rollback of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), and a return to ballot papers for future elections, sharply escalating its political confrontation with the poll body.

Following an INDIA bloc coordination meeting at the Constitution Club in New Delhi, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge announced a nationwide protest programme, saying that INDIA bloc leaders would hold a "Save Democracy March" at the district level from October 2 to October 8. He further said that opposition MPs would march to the Election Commission on October 6, ...