India, Sept. 29 -- Equating the deletion of names from electoral rolls under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) drive to "vote-demonetisation," Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Tuesday called for removal of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over irregularities and issued a five-point list of demands to ensure transparency in the election process.

Kharge also demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi must resign on moral grounds for "pressuring" the CEC.

Presiding over the Congress Working Committee meeting in the national Capital on Tuesday, Kharge also demanded that voters whose names have been removed must be fully informed and given an opportunity to appeal. Political parties, he added, must be provided with the el...