{
  "id": 13767188,
  "title": "'Vote Chori' Row: CJI Surya Kant Declines Meeting With Rahul Gandhi, Kharge Ahead Of Opposition's Supreme Court March",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/11/vote-chori-row-cji-surya-kant-declines-meeting-with-rahul-gandhi",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-11T17:38:17.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/india/vote-chori-row-cji-surya-kant-declines-meeting-with-rahul-gandhi-kharge-ahead-of-oppositions-supreme-court-march"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Chief Justice of India Surya Kant has declined to meet with leaders of the opposition parties, Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge, ahead of the opposition's planned protest march to the Supreme Court on Monday. The leaders had requested a meeting to discuss the \"vote chori\" issue, demand CEC Gyanesh Kumar's resignation, halt the SIR (symbolic induction register) process, and revert to paper ballot voting. The Chief Justice's decision was communicated to the opposition parties via email, declining their request for a meeting.",
  "summary": "New Delhi: Chief Justice of India Surya Kant has not agreed to meet Leaders of Opposition after both of them wrote to him seeking time for a meeting on Monday to raise the 'vote chori' issue, sources said on Sunday night. Leaders of Opposition (LoPs) in Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha - Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge - had written to the CJI for a meeting with him between 4 and 5 PM on Monday to…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 3,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "The Hindu",
        "title": "T.N. students, youth will not fall for Rahul Gandhi’s ‘false propaganda’, says Nagenthran",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/11/t-n-students-youth-will-not-fall-for-rahul-gandhis-false-propaganda",
        "published": "2026-10-11T12:58:09.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "The Indian Express",
        "title": "‘Not the India we want’: Rahul Gandhi announces march to Supreme Court over SIR, ‘vote chori’",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/11/not-the-india-we-want-rahul-gandhi-announces-march-to-supreme-court",
        "published": "2026-10-11T15:37:04.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}