Congress tells Amit Shah to get 'hatchet man' CEC Gyanesh Kumar to resign before SIR debate

The Congress on Tuesday responded to Union Home Minister Amit Shahs offer to hold a special session of Parliament to debate the Special Intensive Revision SIR of electoral rolls demanding that Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar resign and the exercise be suspended before any discussionCongress general secretary incharge of communications Jairam Ramesh said Shah should also share the governments proposed changes to delimitation with the Opposition in advanceCongress questions governments special session proposalRamesh said 82 days had passed since the Monsoon Session of Parliament was adjourned sine die but the House had not yet been proroguedThis is because the Home Minister is still entertaining ideas of calling a Special Session to pass the Delimitation Bills with a supertainted twothirds majority in the Lok Sabha Ramesh allegedHe said the contents of the proposed bills were still unknown although he claimed their purpose was to protect the BJP from an electoral setback in 2029Ramesh targets CEC over SIRReacting to Amit Shahs offer to hold a debate on alleged vote chori Ramesh accused the Home Minister of taking a different position from the one adopted by the government when the Opposition had sought a discussion on SIR during the previous yearMeanwhile the selfstyled Chanakya the master of bluff bombast and bluster says he is ready for a Special Session to discuss vote chori Last year when the combined Opposition wanted a debate on SIR he had refused saying SIR was the prerogative of the Election Commission Ramesh saidIf the Home Minister is serious about a Special Session on vote chori he should first secure the resignation of his hatchet man CEC Gyanesh Kumar He should also suspend SIR the Congress leader saidRamesh also called on Shah to share the governments delimitation proposals with the Opposition well in advanceCongress seeks allparty meeting on delimitationThe Congress leader questioned why the Home Minister had not convened an allparty meeting to discuss the proposed delimitation changesAnd of course he should also be sharing with the Opposition well in advance his new proposals for Delimitation Ramesh addedWhy doesnt he have the courage to convene an allparty meeting to discuss these proposals in detail the Congress leader saidShah challenges Rahul Gandhi to debateRameshs remarks came a day after Shah said the government was prepared to convene a special session of Parliament to discuss SIR and challenged Congress leader Rahul Gandhi to participate in a debateSpeaking during the BJPs Save Democracy Remove Anarchy padayatra in Hyderabad Shah dismissed the INDIA blocs rally in Delhi as a save infiltrator mobilisationHe questioned the Congresss criticism of electronic voting machines EVMs asking how the party had formed governments in states such as Telangana if the machines were faultyRahul ji you dont allow Parliament to run Be it EVMs SIR infiltrators I challenge you from Hyderabad We are ready to convene a special session of Parliament Come for debate Shah saidBJP accuses Congress of protecting infiltratorsShah said Prime Minister Narendra Modi would shred Congress into pieces if a parliamentary debate took place and accused the Opposition of seeking political attention through anarchyHe also alleged that the Congress was opposing SIR to protect infiltrators from Bangladesh on electoral rollsThe Home Minister asserted that the BJP would remove every infiltrator from the electoral rollsWith inputs from PTI