Congress, Opposition leaders detained during protest march in Delhi against CEC Gyanesh Kumar

Police detained several INDIA bloc leaders on Tuesday after stopping their march from the Parliament House complex towards the Election Commission headquarters in New DelhiThe opposition leaders were stopped on Parliament Street where they staged a dharna demanding the resignation ofChief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over alleged irregularities in the revision of electoral rollsAfter being stopped by the police the INDIA bloc leaders sat on the road and staged a protestThe leaders raised slogans against the Election Commission and demanded that Kumar step downThe protest is part of the oppositions wider campaign against the Special Intensive Revision SIR of electoral rolls and alleged irregularities in the processVIDEO Delhi Police detain INDIA bloc leaders and take them in bus after their march from Parliament House complex towards the Election Commission was stopped on Parliament Street where they sat on a dharna demanding Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumars resignation Full video available on PTI Videos httpstcobIyFWTfmBdmdash Press Trust of India PTI_News October 6 2026The protest marchINDIA bloc MPs including Leaders of Opposition Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday marched from Parliament House complex towards the Election Commission but were stopped by police on Parliament Street where they sat on a dharna demanding Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumars resignationAfter being prevented from proceeding further they sat on the road in protest Opposition MPs carried cutouts depicting Kumar in an RSS uniform and raised slogans including BJP hai CEC hai Vote chor gaddi chhod and Democracy not for saleIn a post on X Gandhi posted Gyanesh its done bro Time to resignDuring the protest Lok Sabha MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra sat atop barricading as police stop INDIA blocs protest march on Parliament StreetTMC leaders Abhishek Banerjee Derek O Brien Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra SP chief Akhilesh Yadav and CPI M leader John Brittas were among those who took part in the marchHeavy security deployment and barricading had been put in place in and around Parliament and the Election Commission headquarters ahead of the marchSecurity personnel were stationed in the area much before the MPs began arriving The MPs gathered at Parliaments Makar Dwar before setting off towards Nirvachan Sadan the Election Commission headquartersPolice detain leadersTMC leader Sagarika Ghose shared a video on X and wrote We are being detained and taken to an unknown locationAs the protest continued police detained the INDIA bloc leaders and took them away in busesWe are being detained and taken to an unknown location httpstcoAgvCe5bjbZmdash Sagarika Ghose sagarikaghose October 6 2026The detention followed heavy security deployment and barricading in the area to prevent the protesters from reaching the Election Commission headquartersThe opposition leaders had set out from the Parliament complex earlier in the day and were seeking to march to the poll bodys officeVIDEO Delhi LoP Lok Sabha leader Rahul Gandhi Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi try to enter Akashvani Bhawan being prevented by police during Oppositions march to Election Commission headquarters OppisitionProtestMarch CEC RahulGandhi PriyankaGandhi Full video available on PTI Videos httpstcobIyFWTfmBdmdash Press Trust of India PTI_News October 6 2026Form 6 row at centre of protestThe oppositions latest protest comes after the Supreme Courts observations on Form 6 the statutory application used for voter enrolmentThe Supreme Court said on Monday that it had not approved any modified version of Form 6 and would examine the Election Commissions records to determine whether changes had been made and who had authorised themThe opposition has cited the courts observations while demanding action against the Election CommissionOpposition targets CECThe INDIA bloc has accused Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar of undermining public trust in the poll body and has called for his resignationThe Election Commission however has rejected allegations of wrongdoing and maintained that decisions relating to the SIR exercise were taken unanimously by the threemember Commission