Jaipur, Oct. 9 -- The Rajasthan Congress on Thursday stepped up its campaign against alleged irregularities in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, holding protests at district headquarters across the state and demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. In Jaipur, the city Congress staged a demonstration outside the collectorate, with workers of the Samajwadi Party and Left parties also joining the protest. Senior Congress leaders, including Pradesh Congress Committee president Govind Singh Dotasara, Leader of Opposition Tika Ram Jully, and MLA Rafiq Khan, participated in the demonstration. The protesters raised slogans against the BJP-led central government and the Election Commission for around 90 minutes. The demonstration disrupted traffic around the collectorate. Dotasara and Jully later burnt an effigy of the central government and called upon party workers to march to Delhi on October 10. Addressing the media, Dotasara launched a sharp attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah, warning that the Congress would continue its agitation over what it alleges is "vote theft". "We are soldiers of the Congress party, which fought for the freedom of this country. When we drove the Britishers out of this country, then what are Modi and Shah?" Dotasara said. He said a major protest would be held at Jantar Mantar in Delhi on October 10 and claimed that 50,000 workers from Rajasthan would travel to the national capital. Dotasara alleged that Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi was being manhandled while protesting against alleged irregularities in electoral rolls. He said Gandhi was only demanding an investigation into alleged "vote theft" and removal of names that had been wrongly included in electoral rolls. The Congress leader also questioned the functioning of the Election Commission, saying it was unacceptable in a democracy if the Leader of Opposition could not meet the Chief Election Commissioner. Jully also criticised the restrictions imposed on opposition protests and questioned why the Leader of Opposition was unable to meet the CEC. "Is the election commissioner a foreigner that he cannot meet us? An ordinary elected representative and even an ordinary citizen can go to the Election Commission and meet officials," Jully said....