New Delhi, Sept. 25 -- Congress workers staged protests across several states on Friday as part of a nationwide programme demanding the resignation and removal of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, amid the ongoing political row over the Election Commission's functioning and the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.

Protests were seen in Jammu and Kashmir, Assam, Uttarakhand, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Chandigarh and Manipur, among other states, with party workers marching towards Election Commission offices and raising slogans against the CEC.

In Dehradun, Uttarakhand Congress leaders and workers, led by state in-charge Kumari Selja and Pradesh Congress Committee president Ganesh Godiyal, marched from the PCC he...