Kolkata, Oct. 12 -- Hundreds of Congress workers took to the streets in Kolkata on Monday, demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar over allegations of electoral irregularities during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls ahead of the West Bengal Assembly elections held earlier this year.
The Congress protesters gathered elsewhere near Esplanade; later, they marched from Lalit Great Eastern Hotel to Lok Bhavan in the city's central business district, covering a distance of around one kilometre. Raising slogans against the CEC, they accused the Election Commission of undermining the democratic process through alleged irregularities in the revision of electoral rolls and demanded Kumar's ...