India, Oct. 12 -- Chief Justice of India (CJI) on Monday declined to disclose the reasons behind his decision not to meet Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, saying he had maintained the confidentiality of the letter exchanged between them.

Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge, Leaders of Opposition (LoPs) in Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, respectively, had written to the CJI seeking a meeting with him between 4 and 5 pm on Monday to hand over a memorandum demanding an end to "vote chori", Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar's resignation, halting of Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, and switching back to the paper ballot format. Track all updates related to protests against CEC Gyanesh Kumar here

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