NEW DELHI, SEP 28 (PTI): Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge has called a meeting of the party’s working committee on Tuesday where the issue of “internal differences” in the Election Commission would be discussed and a roadmap for CEC Gyanesh Kumar’s removal would be chalked out. Announcing this, Kharge said that the Election Commissioners have “exposed” the working within the poll body by raising concerns over Special Intensive Revision (SIR) and changes in Form 6 for enrolling new voters, besides additions and deletions from voter lists and centralised control over the electoral roll database. He said the issue is very serious and concerns the survival of democracy in the country and has to be taken up on priority.
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