‘Gyanesh, it’s done bro’: INDIA bloc marches to EC

India's opposition parties marched to the Election Commission (ECI) on Tuesday, calling for Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar's resignation. Leaders like Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge were among the MPs who participated in the protest, staging a sit-in outside the NITI Aayog office near Parliament Street. The demonstrators carried cutouts with Kumar depicted in an RSS uniform and shouted slogans such as "BJP hai CEC hai," "Vote chor, gaddi chhod," and "Democracy not for sale."

The protest was sparked by the Supreme Court's decision not to approve any modified version of Form 6, the voter registration application used for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. The court stated it would review the ECI's records to ascertain if changes were made to the form and who authorized them. Opposition parties seized on this to intensify their criticism of Kumar and the ECI, particularly regarding the SIR process.

Ahead of the march, opposition MPs questioned the security arrangements surrounding Parliament and the ECI headquarters, demanding Kumar's resignation. Congress MP Imran Masood accused the CEC of damaging public trust in the poll body, while CPI MP P Sandosh Kumar alleged the Supreme Court's observations bolstered their objections to the additional declaration appended to Form 6 during the SIR.

Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut questioned the heavy security deployment, asking why MPs needed such a massive force if they intended to protest peacefully.

The opposition's campaign against the ECI has been ongoing since 2025, with claims of irregularities in the SIR exercise and alleged discrepancies within the three-member Election Commission. Despite repeated assertions of unanimous decision-making by the commission, the controversy surrounding the Supreme Court's remarks on Form 6 has fueled the opposition's attacks on Kumar and the ECI.