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- Indian National Congress announced a march to the Supreme Court at 08:00 GMT to meet Chief Justice Surya Kant and submit a memorandum demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over alleged vote fraud.
- Chief Justice Surya Kant refused to meet opposition leaders, stating that cases related to the electoral roll revision are already pending before the top court.
- Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar is the specific target of Congress's resignation demand, named in the memorandum over the alleged vote fraud.
- India's electoral roll revision removed 130 million people from voter lists, the underlying dispute that triggered Congress's Supreme Court action.
- Congress as the main opposition party is leading the constitutional escalation, framing the electoral roll changes as vote theft warranting the CEC's removal.
Why it matters: The confrontation places India's top electoral officer at the center of a constitutional crisis after a voter purge of 130 million names — a scale that, if not resolved, could undermine the legitimacy of upcoming elections and hand the opposition a rallying cause against Prime Minister Modi's government.
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