Oppn holds 'public impeachment' of poll panel chief; 'drama' says BJP
New Delhi, Nov. 1 -- Nineteen opposition parties on Saturday staged a mock-Parliament "impeachment" of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar at Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge's residence, adopting a resolution at 7.05pm that holds him responsible for "a manipulated, truncated and destructive" special intensive revision of electoral rolls and demands his immediate removal and a trial for treason. More than 250 opposition lawmakers attended the 3.5-hour session, the first time such an exercise has been used against a constitutional post-holder.
The five-point resolution also accuses Kumar of amending Form 6, centralising control over electoral rolls and excluding the other two Election Commissioners from decision-making. Rahul Gand...
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