Dhruv Rathee Joins CJP Protest Against SIR Irregularities

“This is my first protest. When I landed yesterday, I saw that social media posts were going viral saying Dhruv Rathee is coming to change the regime. Narendra Modi must be thinking I have a problem with him, but the entire nation has a problem with him,” Rathee said.

Rathee Questions Voter Deletions

Rathee said that 70 lakh people were omitted in West Bengal before elections. He added that only Prime minister Narendra Modi, Home minister Amit Shah and Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar can answer this question.

"I would want to tell this to BJP voters too that voting is a right. The BJP supporters are not convinced of ‘vote chori' claims.” Rathee said.

“What happened in Bihar? Over 40 lakh names were deleted but Gyanesh Kumar didn’t say a word until the Supreme Court asked these names to be made public. Who are these people? While in Goa, even though EROs wanted to add, ECI didn’t allow,” he added.

Dipke Accuses Modi Of Vote Theft

CJP Founder Abhijeet Dipke slammed Prime Minister Modi for killing democracy. Dipke said SIR is a reflection of RSS and Godse's ideology.

CJP chairing a protest organised by a civil society group against SIR said the deletion of voters under the Special Intensive Revision was to target certain voters who oppose the BJP and called PM Modi and the Election Commission to be responsible for the murder of democracy and stealing votes.

“Narendra Modi did ‘vote chori’ and won. People who are alive are declared dead. This is death of democracy by Narendra Modi. Through SIR, Modi wants ownership of people. This is RSS ideology, Godse’s ideology,” Dipke said.

“Nehru is the backbone of India, and gave voting rights to people who didn’t know about it. Meanwhile this Vishwaguru is doing vote chori. ‘One nation, one election’ is only a slogan. However, the intention is ‘one nation, one party’. This is similar to what Hilter intended. The difference between BJP and Congress in 2024 is just 2%, that’s why this ‘vote chori’. Because BJP was shocked with the results after claiming “400 paar”, he added.

Protests To Continue Until CEC's Removal

Dipke said the protests will go on until Gyanesh Kumar is removed from his office.

“Across India, 13 crore names have been deleted from the draft stage, and the BJP via ECI has increased the winning gap. Mamata Banerjee, Arvind Kejriwal, Stalin and Pinarayi Vijayan – all those who were against Modi, lost this time. They call us [youth] cockroaches because they want us to live like a cockroach; but we need to be resilient like a cockroach. The street belongs to the youth and we will reclaim the nation, the democracy. We will not let Modi impose his dictatorship,” he said.

The protests in Bengaluru, with Rathee and Raj present, are one of CJP's protests, seeking the resignation of Gyanesh Kumar and bringing about changes to the manner in which the Special Intensive Revision of the voter lists was being conducted.