Shimla, September 28: On the call of the Pradesh Congress Committee, District Congress Committees across Himachal Pradesh staged protests on Sunday against what they alleged was “vote theft” and the functioning of the Chief Election Commissioner.
In Shimla, District Congress Committee Shimla Rural president Hari krishan Himral and Shimla Urban president Inderjit Singh led the protest. The party leaders submitted a memorandum addressed to the President of India through the Additional Deputy Commissioner, raising serious questions over the functioning of the Chief Election Commissioner.
The memorandum demanded the immediate removal of the Chief Election Commissioner from office. The Congress alleged that names were being deleted from electoral rolls in the name of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), which, it claimed, amounted to depriving citizens of their constitutional right to vote.
The Congress further demanded that a case of sedition be registered against the Chief Election Commissioner over the alleged denial of voting rights to citizens.
Among those present during the protest were Himachal Pradesh Congress Committee vice-president Ramesh Thakur, Chandra Shekhar Sharma, Vijay Chauhan, Devender Thakur, Rajesh Sharma, Chandel, Deepak Rathore, Mamta, Anuradha, Surender Retka, Pawan Verma, Ramesh Chandel, Jitender Bragta, Pawan Himta, Mahesh Verma, Dinesh Mehta, Ram Singh Jaswal, Rajeshwar Jaswal, Ghanshyam Himral, Vishakha Modi, Satya Verma, Deepak Sundriyal and Mahendra Kumar
