New Delhi: The Cockroach Janta Party and students organisations aligned with Left parties and AAP on Wednesday called for united mobilisation for the October 10 protest against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar w…

New Delhi: The Cockroach Janta Party and students organisations aligned with Left parties and AAP on Wednesday called for united mobilisation for the October 10 protest against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar while emphasising that they are in for a long haul as the agitation will continue until electoral system is overhauled.The joint call for protest for a Jantar Mantar 2.0 — the first being in June-July that culminated with resignation of Dharmendra Pradhan as Education Minister — also backed the ongoing protest by I.N.D.I.A. MPs on the issue.EC-SIR row | ‘Policemen scratched me all over’: High-voltage drama unfolds in Delhi on day 2 of Oppn protest; Priyanka Gandhi lies down on road as cops detain MPsThe joint press conference saw CJP, CPI(ML)L-backed AISA, CPI(M)-backed SFI, CPI-backed AISF and AAP-backed ASAP coming together on a single platform to call for protest at Jantar Mantar this Saturday. They demanded Kumar’s resignation, freezing the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls and re-inclusion of voters deleted through SIR.CJP co-convenor Saurav Das, who went to Parliament Street Police Station earlier to “intimate” about the October 10 agitation, said, “this fight is not going to be easy. I appeal to everyone across the country to join us, book train and flight tickets.” He said Kumar’s resignation will not end the protest as protesters will not step back because the electoral system needs to be cleaned up. He claimed that the BJP’s pushback reflects a “lust for eternal power”.On whether permission was sought for the protest, Das objected to using the word permission and asked, “who is Delhi Police to give us permission? We will cooperate with Delhi Police and we hope Delhi Police will cooperate with us.” He said a formal intimation and undertakings were provided at the Parliament Street police station and it was “sufficient”.’Speak about Smit Machchhar too’: Piyush Mishra calls out Naseeruddin Shah for ‘selective activism’ after CJP protest’Dictatorship’: Police sending notices to CJP volunteers, pressuring not to join Oct 10 protest, says DipkeAISA president Neha Bora maintained that there is no division between the students-led mobilisation and the opposition ‘ protests while insisting that common people, civil society, opposition and student organisations stand on one side and the EC and the BJP on the other. “If ever there was a time to desert the BJP, it is now,” she said.SFI president Adarsh M Saji said the fight is now between “democracy and autocracy”.

Source: Deccan Herald