New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party national convenor Arvind Kejriwal Monday said the Cockroach Janta Party’s movement should now be for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s resignation.
Kejriwal at Pratidin Time Conclave said, “First, you demanded the resignation of Dharmendra Pradhan. Now you are demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. I say, go ahead and directly demand the boss’s resignation. Everything is happening at his behest.”
Now the movement should be for Modi’s resignation. Whatever the CEC did, he did it for “his boss”, not for himself, he added.
CJP spokesperson Ashutosh Ranka Monday asserted that the outfit would not back down from its demand for the CEC’s resignation over the alleged exclusion of 13 crore names from electoral rolls and challenged him to clear the allegations against him before the press and the public.
On September 24, the CJP demanded Kumar’s resignation for allegedly “undermining” voter rights and warned of a nationwide agitation, including “Jantar Mantar 2.0”, if he did not step down within 48 hours.
Launching what it called the ‘Election Commission Thik Karo’ campaign, the youth-led outfit said the campaign would focus on the alleged exclusion of more than 13 crore names from draft electoral rolls across 30 states and Union territories during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise.