BENGALURU: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday launched a sharp attack on Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar, demanding his resignation and asserting that the party will fight the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) issue and the Election Commission row “seriously.”
Speaking on the party’s stand, Kharge said he has called a Congress Working Committee meeting for Tuesday, where members will discuss the issue and give their suggestions.
“I have called a working committee meeting for tomorrow, and there we’ll discuss; all the working committee members will give their suggestions. And we are going to fight seriously. This issue concerns the entire country, the existence of our democracy, and the country’s survival. That’s why we are very serious about this issue. We’ll fight, and we’ll see that,” he said.
Responding to the EC’s clarification over the SIR row, Kharge alleged that CEC was propagating the BJP’s philosophy.
“They will say like this only, but their own people have exposed them, and their own people are telling. Even a Chief Secretary of Kerala says, our CEC himself told him to contest the election. It means that a person who is in the highest position is propagating the BJP’s philosophy, and he has become a BJP worker. So it is clear. There is nothing. He should resign,” Kharge said.
“If he has got any little moral right, he should resign from that post. And afterwards, we have to take action against him, even after resignation,” he added.
