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Raj, Uddhav Thackeray announce joint protest march against Election Commission on October 4

Mumbai, Sept 29 (UNI) Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray and Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday announced a joint protest march against the Election Commission on October 4.
The march will begin at Byculla and proceed to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) headquarters, the two leaders said at a joint news conference.
Raj Thackeray said the protest would target the Election Commission and invited other political parties to participate. He said the MNS had been raising concerns about Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and the functioning of the Election Commission for several years, but claimed that no satisfactory resolution had been found.
Raj Thackeray also extended his party’s full support to the proposed Jail Bharo Andolan announced by Cockroach Janta Party founder Abhijeet Dipke against the Election Commission.
The announcement comes amid growing opposition protests over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls and demands for the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.
In Mumbai, Dipke has announced a Jail Bharo Andolan at Shivaji Park on October 2 at 4 pm. He had earlier claimed that Mumbai Police denied permission for the protest.
Police, however, said they are not empowered to grant permission for gatherings at Shivaji Park under a 2013 Bombay High Court order, which designated the area as a silence zone. Police advised applicant Ajinkya Shinde to seek an alternative venue.
Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray has also backed protests against Gyanesh Kumar. In a post on X, he said that if Kumar did not step down, people in Mumbai would turn out in large numbers from October 2 to protest what he described as “Vote Chori.”
The Congress also intensified its campaign on Monday, organising demonstrations across state capitals and districts. Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge demanded Kumar’s resignation and said the party would pursue its concerns over the SIR exercise.
The Congress Working Committee on Tuesday demanded the immediate resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, an immediate suspension of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls and restoration of what the party claims are 13 crore 30 lakh names removed from electoral rolls, accusing the Narendra Modi government and the Election Commission of India (ECI) of undermining electoral democracy.
The resolution adopted by the CWC, chaired by Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, described the alleged manipulation of electoral rolls as a grave threat to universal adult franchise and declared that the Congress would take the battle “in Parliament, in the courts and on the streets” until the ECI was restored, in the party’s view, as an independent constitutional authority.
The CWC alleged that the RSS-BJP had sought to capture the electoral process with the assistance of the ECI under Kumar and said recent reports of differences within the poll panel had vindicated Congress leader and Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi’s warnings about what he has termed “Vote Chori”.UNI AAA AAB
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