New Delhi [India], August 12 : Congress MP K Suresh on Tuesday said the INDIA bloc's protest to the Election Commission has made a strong impact across the country.
He called for free, fair, and impartial elections in the country.
Speaking to ANI, K Suresh said, "Yesterday's INDIA bloc protest to the Election Commission has created a huge impact throughout the country. In India, people want the Election Commission to be fair and free and also the election process to be impartial and independent. The INDIA bloc continued the agitation inside and outside the Parliament to save our parliamentary democracy..."
A day earlier, the INDIA bloc and its leaders came down heavily on the Election Commission of India (ECI) amid allegations of "vote theft" in the previous assembly and general elections.
The opposition MPs were detained by the Delhi police this morning for protesting the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in poll-bound Bihar, following allegations of "vote theft," after they were denied permission to march to the EC office.
The allegations levelled by Congress leader and Leader of Opposition (LoP) Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi have sparked massive political controversy across the country, with the ruling side alleging that it was an attempt to create "anarchy" and further charging them of "working" against the constitution.
Meanwhile, the Election Commission has been asking Gandhi to sign an oath under its rules to substantiate his claims or issue an apology for the allegations levelled by him against the constitutional body.
However, the opposition leaders are charging the Election Commission of "being one" with the government while accusing the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of being a "dictator."
Earlier in the day, on the seventeenth day of the Monsoon Session, Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi and party president Mallikarjun Kharge joined fellow INDIA bloc members in staging a protest in Parliament over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) issue.
Several Opposition MPs arrived wearing white T-shirts emblazoned with the slogan '124 Not Out'.
Prominent leaders such as Nationalist Congress Party (Sharad Pawar), MP Supriya Sule, and DMK MP Kanimozhi were seen holding onions during the protest.