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Congress and Indian Youth Congress workers staged nationwide protests targeting Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over the special intensive revision of the electoral roll. Demonstrations were held across Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Bengal, Patna, and Kashmir. In the national capital, Youth Congress workers marching towards the Election Commission headquarters were halted by police barricades and paramilitary personnel. Protesters carried placards reading 'Vote Chori Treason Hai', alleging match-fixing in the electoral process and demanding the Chief Election Commissioner's immediate resignation and imprisonment.

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00:00So you heard the Bharatiya Janata Party taking the fight right back to the Congress camp.
00:05But the Congress has come out all guns blazing and not just in the national capital in Delhi.
00:09There were protests held in multiple parts of the country from Delhi to Bengal to Uttar Pradesh to Madhya Pradesh
00:17to various other parts of the country.
00:18The Congress wants to make this into a nationwide protest against the special intensive revision of the electoral roll process
00:27under Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.
00:31They're saying that this is match fixing.
00:34Opposition parties staged protests in different parts of the country specifically against Gyanesh Kumar being the CEC demanding that he
00:41either be removed forthwith or as Rahul Gandhi earlier said he should turn approver.
00:46Let me quickly get to some ground reports from the national capital and other parts of the country.
00:51Currently I am here at the Raisena Road just few meters away from the IYC headquarters from where Indian Youth
00:57Congress has started their protest march towards the Election Commission office.
01:01But on the other hand I will show you in the visuals that heavy barricading has been done by the
01:05Delhi police and the paramilitary forces to stop the Congress workers to march towards the Election Commission headquarters.
01:11But here in the visuals clearly you can see that IYC workers are holding cards in their hand.
01:17They are trying to march towards the Election Commission office.
01:20They are holding posters in their hand.
01:22So clearly they are targeting Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar who has been in the center of the controversy after
01:29the Indian Express report.
01:30They are demanding resignation of Gyanesh Kumar and they are also asking answers from the BJP that why you are
01:37allegedly shielding Gyanesh Kumar.
01:39But here in the visuals I will show you that how heavy barricading has been done here by the Delhi
01:43police paramilitary forces have been deployed here.
01:46And clearly in the visuals you can see that IYC workers from around the national capital and other North Indian
01:53states have gathered here.
01:54I am joined by Uday Banu Chip, IYC National President. What are your main demands?
01:59Main demands, Gyanesh Gaddar who is going to go to jail, 13 crore bharatiyo ka vote lene ka adhikar joe
02:05hai, hunse chheen kar, yeh binsan joe hai, gaddi me ba'tha hai,
02:09isko jail me jana cha hai, itna bada apraad isne ki hai, desh ke logtantra ko khatam ki hai, Gyanesh
02:13jail me jub tak nai jayega, tihaad nai jayega,
02:19IYC is saying that Gyanesh Kumar should be in prison, he should resign from his position because we are seeing
02:25that Indian Youth Congress, Congress Party and other units of the Congress have started their Hala Bol protest march around
02:32the India.
02:33Not only here in the national capital we are seeing visuals coming from Patna, Kashmir and various other cities around
02:39the India where we are seeing that Congress Party workers are protesting.
02:42And after that we will see that Delhi Pradesh Congress has also called a protest march around 2 pm where
02:48they will be also protesting against Gyanesh Kumar.

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