CEC Gyanesh Kumar should resign, turn approver, says Rahul Gandhi
The Congress leader said that PM Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah ‘will be investigated’ for ‘stealing the votes’ of ordinary Indians.

Rahul Gandhi, the leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, on Thursday said that Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar should resign from his post and “turn approver”.
The Congress leader also said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah “will be investigated” for “stealing the votes” of ordinary Indians.
Gandhi was speaking at a press conference in Delhi in reference to The Indian Express’ investigation published on Wednesday, which revealed that two election commissioners had objected 14 times in 10 months to decisions about the poll panel’s special intensive revision of electoral rolls.
The newspaper had reported that Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi formally objected to decisions related to the SIR, saying that some had been taken without their knowledge.
Their objections were reportedly related to the registration of new voters and changes to Form 6, appeals against the inclusion of voters in West Bengal and the handling of voter data in Goa, among other matters. Form 6 is used to register new voters.
In one written objection, Sandhu was quoted as having stated that the poll panel had acted against the advice of both commissioners and described the action as “unauthorised and illegal”.
The two election commissioners had also raised concerns over access to the digital electoral roll database.
On Thursday, Gandhi started...