PATNA, Oct. 9 -- The Opposition INDIA bloc's march to the Lok Bhawan, demanding the resignation of chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over alleged irregularities in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), saw a low turnout, signalling ineffective coordination among the bloc's allies. Leader of Opposition in the Bihar Assembly, Tejashwi Prasad Yadav, adopted an aggressive stance during the march, scaling barricades near the chief electoral office at Shaheed Smarak. He alleged that the state government employed intimidation tactics to prevent workers from reaching Lok Bhawan. During the resulting melee, several demonstrators fell to the tarmac, and former CPI(ML) legislator Ajit Kushwaha collapsed and was rushed away for medical attention. "It is appalling. We had informed the Governor that we would visit him in a peaceful procession. Yet police personnel are brandishing AK-47 rifles. This is the dictatorial attitude of the ruling NDA that Gyanesh Kumar is abetting." Tejashwi said, just before he was detained near the chief electoral office, along with other opposition leaders who had started the march from the Shaheed Smarak near the Bihar Vidhan Sabha. Later, Yadav along with senior party leaders and few INDIA bloc leaders met Governor Syed Ata Hasnain at the Lok Bhawan after being taken there by the police and submitted a memorandum. In the memorandum on behalf of INDIA bloc constituents, it was alleged the CEC had acted unilaterally to favour the ruling NDA despite differences of opinion with two other election commissioners on the process of SIR, and there had been 'vote theft' before the Bihar and West Bengal assembly polls to influence the election results in favour of BJP by deleting and adding large number of voters via manipulations during SIR. " We will continue to fight for saving democracy and want the resignation of CEC. He has to go. There has been vote theft in the country and it is now an open secret," Yadav said, after coming out of Lok Bhawan. He also quoted a modified ryhme, taking oblique potshots at the CEC : "Gyanu, Gyanu, yes papa. Stealing votes, no papa. Open the newspaper, ha ha ha." However, the " Gyanesh Bachao, Loktantra Bachao march' today surely brought to fore lack of cohesiveness and bickering within the alliance in the backdrop of the ongoing one-upmanship among RJD and Congress in putting candidates for the upcoming biennial polls to eight seats of teachers and graduates constituencies. Official media invites revealed a glaring operational disconnect: the RJD directed its cadre to assemble outside the Bihar Vidhan Sabha at 10am, while Congress notices instructed workers to gather an hour later at 11am. The staggered timing yielded disjointed optics. By the time security cordons moved in, Congress presence was reduced to a near-total no-show. Shakeel Ahmad Khan was the lone prominent Congress face present, chalking up the absence to "confusion over the scheduled time." "There was not much of coordination among the allies as most of the workers of different parties of the INDIA bloc just dispersed soon after Tejashwi and other top leaders were detained. The event was more like a symbolic protest, it seemed," said one leader of the INDIA bloc. Meanwhile, RJD MP Misha Bharti condemned the police for high-handedness, while Patna police detained Bihar Pradesh Congress Committee (BPCC) President Rajesh Ram alongside party cadres. After securing bail, Ram accused the state of shielding the CEC and using water cannons and force on peaceful citizens. The BPCC chief vowed that the opposition would escalate the fight for voting rights from the streets to Parliament. Patna senior superintendent of police (SSP) Kartikeya Sharma stated that while unruly agitators were detained in accordance with the law, an opposition delegation led by Yadav was escorted to Lok Bhavan to submit their representation to Governor Lt Gen (Retd) Syed Ata Hasnain. CPI(ML) general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya, who led the demonstration alongside leader of Opposition Tejashwi Yadav and VIP chief Mukesh Sahni, sharply condemned the alleged police brutality that left former MLA and RYA national president Ajit Kushwaha hospitalized with serious injuries. Bhattacharya asserted that the country's Election Commission cannot function under Kumar's leadership, labeling the election process biased and describing the "SIR" initiative as a direct assault on the constitutional voting rights. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) countered fiercely. Bihar BJP president Sanjay Saraogi dismissed the march as pure political desperation from leaders facing electoral rejection. Saraogi argued that the SIR is designed to cleanse voter lists of bogus entries, deceased individuals, duplicate registrations, and infiltrators. He said that the sanitisation exercise has dismantled the apparatus of parties that previously relied on booth manipulation....