Congress Marches to Supreme Court Against Election Chief — SkimNews
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- Indian National Congress is leading a march to India's Supreme Court to submit a memorandum demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over alleged vote fraud.
- Chief Justice Surya Kant refused to meet the opposition delegation, citing that cases related to electoral roll revisions removing 130 million people from voter lists are already pending before the top court.
- The underlying electoral roll revision under dispute removed 130 million people from India's voter lists, per the source.
- Cross-coverage with Al Jazeera confirms consensus framing: both outlets center the story on Congress's push to oust the election chief in New Delhi.
- The Supreme Court's response channels Congress toward the judicial process already underway on the same underlying dispute rather than engaging with the street-level protest.
Why it matters: The confrontation puts Congress's mass mobilization on a collision course with the judiciary, which has already deemed the core electoral roll dispute — involving the removal of 130 million voters — within its purview. The pending Supreme Court cases, not the protest, will determine whether CEC Gyanesh Kumar stays or goes.
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