Bengaluru: The Opposition is in no mood to let up the pressure on Election Commission of India (ECI) and demand for resignation of Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar over alleged manipulation of electoral rolls under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise.
Days after a ‘public impeachment’ of Gyanesh at a mock Parliament in Delhi, the INDIA bloc held a state-level protest at Bengaluru’s Freedom Park, where party workers enacted ‘arrest’ of Gyanesh as part of the demonstration.
One of the protesters was seen in a Gyanesh Kumar mask, wearing khaki shorts. The handcuffed ‘CEC’ was paraded through the streets on Wednesday alongside a man dressed as a police officer.
#WATCH | Bengaluru, Karnataka: The INDIA bloc holds a state-level protest rally at Freedom Park, demanding the immediate resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over alleged electoral roll manipulation. Congress leader Dinesh Gundu Rao also present there. https://t.co/myBM2ruNtN
— ANI (@ANI) November 5, 2026
The protest was organised by the Congress, CPI(M), CPI, CPI(ML) Liberation, Forward Bloc and Samajwadi Party, along with other progressive parties, social organisations and student and youth groups involved in the anti-SIR agitation.
Karnataka Chief Minister DK Shivakumar, former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president BK Hariprasad participated in the protest.
Protesters demanded the rollback of deleted voters, scrapping of the electoral roll revision, and immediate resignation of the CEC.
The Bengaluru protest was part of INDIA bloc’s nationwide agitation, in continuation of the agitation organised Delhi’s at Ramlila Maidan on November 1.
