New Delhi, Read: Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi and other leaders on Monday filed a petition in the Supreme Court alleging large-scale deletion of names of voters and various irregularities during the Special Intensive Review (SIR).
Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, Trinamool Congress MP Saugata Roy, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Prasad Yadav, Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) leader Supriya Sule, Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) leader Sanjay Raut, Communist Party of India leader D. Raja, Jharkhand Mukti Morcha MP Mahua Majhi, Marxist Communist Party general secretary M.A. Baby and Indian Union Muslim League leader E.T. Mohammad Bashir have also filed this petition.
According to the Supreme Court website, the petition was filed in the evening. MPs and leaders of opposition parties along with hundreds of supporters and activists on Monday began their 'Democracy March' to the Supreme Court with the aim of filing a petition against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over allegations of 'vote theft'. Those leading this march include Rahul Gandhi, Kharge, Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Communist Party of India leader D. Raja, CPI(M) leader M.A. Baby, Rashtriya Janata Dal's Tejashwi Yadav, NCP (SP) leader Supriya Sule, Shiv Sena (Ubhatha) leader Sanjay Raut, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) leader Dipankar Bhattacharya and Indian Union Muslim League leader. T. Mohammad Bashir was included.
Sources said on Sunday that earlier Chief Justice of India Surya Kant had refused to meet Rahul Gandhi on allegations of 'vote theft'. He had said that such cases are already under judicial process in the Supreme Court. Rahul Gandhi and Kharge had written a letter to the Chief Justice asking for a meeting between 4 to 6 pm on Monday. They wanted to submit a memorandum to him, demanding to stop 'vote theft', resignation of Gyanesh Kumar, special intensive revision of voter lists and re-conduct of elections through ballot papers.
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