According to party leaders, the Congress will intensify its campaign over suspected "vote chori" and the SIR issue by holding a significant demonstration at Ramlila Maidan in the nation's capital on Sunday.
It is anticipated that former party leader Rahul Gandhi and Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge will speak at the rally. Senior leaders will gather at the party's Indira Bhawan headquarters before to the gathering and take a bus to Ramlila Maidan.
Days prior to the demonstration, the administration and the opposition engaged in a heated argument in the Lok Sabha over claims of "vote chori" and the particularly rigorous revision of electoral records.
Former Congress president Sonia Gandhi is also expected to attend, along with other prominent figures including Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, K C Venugopal, Jairam Ramesh, and Sachin Pilot.
"The 'Vote Chor, Gaddi Chhod' demonstration has been organized by our party at Ramlila Maidan. ANI cited Congress leader Bhupesh Baghel as stating, "The Congress party has taken a step towards a decisive battle, and a large number of people will attend this rally." A Revanth Reddy, the chief minister of Telangana, is anticipated to be present at the demonstration.
1,027 Congress leaders and volunteers left Jammu on Saturday to join the protest, according to a party spokesperson. While traveling, the group chanted "Delhi chalo" and "vote chore, gaddi chhore," according to PTI.
The Jharkhand Pradesh Congress Committee has made significant preparations for the rally, according to Jharkhand Congress President Keshav Mahto Kamlesh.
Kamlesh described the event as historic, adding that a sizable number of party leaders, employees, and representatives from all over Jharkhand have already traveled to Delhi.
The Election Commission of India was criticized on Saturday by Congress MP K C Venugopal, who claimed that the nation "lacked a neutral umpire" to hold elections.
Additionally, he cited previous press conferences held by Rahul Gandhi, the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, which focused on purported electoral fraud.
"This nation lacks an impartial arbiter for holding elections. In actuality, this poses a serious threat to democracy. For this reason, we are fully committed to a campaign and movement.
The President of India must receive the five-crore signature. We would like to schedule an appointment. We also talked about this vote chori issue in Parliament.
Our LoP has provided clear recommendations. We are offering specific recommendations in addition to criticism. The machines, or EVMs, are the subject of numerous concerns
There will be thousands of individuals involved in that. Venugopal was cited by ANI as adding, "This is an internal party program."
In order to draw attention to alleged vote theft, the Congress has collected more than five crore signatures nationwide, according to Venugopal, who described it as a fundamental democratic issue.
He stated that "bogus" and duplicate votes were there, that anomalies favoring the BJP were revealed by Rahul Gandhi's press appearances, and that the Election Commission disregarded the party's complaint while focusing on the Congress.
On Wednesday, tensions erupted in the Lok Sabha when Congressman Rahul Gandhi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah quarreled over accusations of "vote chori." Gandhi frequently urged Shah to discuss the topics brought up at recent news conferences, like as allegations of voting roll discrepancies.
Rahul also launched a scathing attack on the government and the Election Commission, posing three queries that he claimed showed how the BJP was "directing and using" the EC to erode democracy in India.
Rahul also proposed a number of changes, such as giving all political parties access to machine-readable voter lists one month prior to elections, eliminating the clause that permits the destruction of CCTV footage after 45 days, allowing access to EVMs, and changing laws that, according to him, permit election commissioners to "get away with whatever they want to do."
In a furious response, Shah declared that he would answer the questions in his own order and that Parliament would not operate in accordance with Rahull's demands. In order to "sanitize" the electoral rolls, he backed the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter lists.
Shah accused the opposition of treating the Election Commission unfairly, claiming that it was commended for winning elections but chastised for losing ones. The House was forced to adjourn when Opposition MPs staged a walkout during Shah's response.
