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Congress party workers burn an effigy of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar during a protest, in Patna, Bihar, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026. | Photo: PTI
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Indian Youth Congress (IYC) members stage a protest against Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar, in New Delhi, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026. | Photo: PTI/Karma Bhutia
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Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal addresses the media on the Election Commission, in New Delhi, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026. | Photo: PTI/Karma Bhutia
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Police personnel present at the site as the Indian Youth Congress (IYC) members stage a protest against Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar, in New Delhi, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026. | Photo: PTI/Karma Bhutia
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Former Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) SY Quraishi speaks to PTI, in Gurugram, Haryana, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2025. Quraishi questioned whether elections could be held on electoral rolls prepared through a legally flawed revision exercise while reacting to a report in The Indian Express that Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi had repeatedly objected to decisions and orders issued without their knowledge during the Special Intensive Revision, including changes to Form 6 and centralisation of control over the electoral roll database. | Photo: PTI
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Former Delhi chief minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal, centre, party MP Sanjay Singh and the party’s Delhi chief Saurabh Bharadwaj address a press conference, in New Delhi, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026. Kejriwal on Wednesday demanded that the entire SIR exercise be cancelled and that the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar should immediately be arrested, citing an Indian Express report that two Election Commissioners had objected to the Election Commission's (EC) steps 14 times in 10 months amid the voter roll clean-up exercise. | Photo: PTI
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Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra speaks to the media during her ongoing visit to Keralam, in Nilambur, Malappuram district, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2025. Priyanka on Wednesday said that if CEC Gyanesh Kumar was aware of elections being rigged and allowed it to happen, then its "treachery to the nation" and "an act of treason", referring to reports of Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi flagging multiple issues, including deletion of names, in various states during the voter roll cleanup under SIR. | Photo: PTI
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TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee addresses virtually on the Election Commission issue, in Kalighat, Kolkata, West Bengal. | Photo: MAMATA BANERJEE/FB via PTI
