2026 anti-CEC protests

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• New demands and procedural audits around the SIR are described, expanding the political context and oversight concerns.

Add: for a temporary suspension of upcoming elections and criminal proceedings against him INDIA bloc a major political alliance of opposition parties demanded temporary suspension of SIR no deletion of voters without notice and hearing publication of details of deleted voters disclosure of internal records and decision making of the ECI independent audit of the SIR including software employed in the process and proper recording of all decisions made in the SIR process The BJP characterised the demonstrations as politically motivated while opposition leaders argued Add: footwear directed at effigies or posters of the ECI and the CEC At Chennai the Students Federation of India and the All India United Students Federation also staged protests demanding the resignation or removal of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and opposing the Special Intensive Revision SIR of electoral rolls Around 150 people were detained and a First Information Report FIR was registered in connection with the protests Former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin criticised the arrests In Delhi the youth organisation Krantikari Yuva Sangathan KYS held a protest at the Red Fort followed by another protest along the Yamuna river on 11 October KYS activists described these locations as new sites of protest after being denied access to the streets The organisation also staged a pr

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