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Protesters in India demand sacking of Chief Election Commissioner

Original: #India is witnessing an unprecedented youth and public protest asking the government to sack it's Chief Election Commiss

Protests led largely by young people have spread across India, with demonstrators calling on the government to remove the Chief Election Commissioner from office. Protesters accuse the Election Commission of colluding with the ruling party and disenfranchising millions of voters by deleting their names from electoral rolls in recent elections. The government has not been reported to have responded to the demands.

Why now: Accusations that the Election Commission purged millions of voters from electoral rolls have sparked rare public protests against a constitutional body.

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• #India is witnessing an unprecedented youth and public protest asking the government to sack it's Chief Election Commissioner ( #CEC ), who had colluded with the ruling regime to disenfrachise millions of voters in the past elections by removing them from the electoral list in… · gopal@fedia.social · 4

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