The Biju Janata Dal announced its participation in an opposition protest march in New Delhi on Tuesday, targeting what it calls arbitrary actions by Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar in the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls that allegedly erased over 13 crore voters nationwide.
Party leader Manas Mangaraj said Supremo Naveen Patnaik has demanded the CEC’s resignation, citing the exclusion of more than 20 lakh voters in Odisha, the deletion of 227 minority votes in Dhamnagar, and thousands of other voters, all of which raise serious integrity concerns.
Mangaraj also highlighted the Supreme Court’s clarification that no directive to modify Form 6 was issued, questioning the CEC’s role in the SIR exercise, while reaffirming BJD’s neutral stance between the INDIA bloc and the NDA.
