NEW DELHI (The Thursday Times) — India ke opposition ittehad INDIA bloc ne Itwar ko Delhi ke Ramlila Maidan mein jalsa kiya taake Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar se istifa ka mutalba kiya jaye, jis mein Rahul Gandhi, Mallikarjun Kharge aur ittehadi jamaaton ke rahnuma khuli chhat wali bason mein pahunche, jabke hazaron hamayatiyon ne sakht security mein dar-ul-hukumat mein march kiya.
"Vote Bachao, Desh Bachao" (Vote ko bachao, mulk ko bachao) jalsa, jo bloc ke Kumar ke khilaf alamati "awami impeachment" ke aik din baad hua, intikhabi fehriston ke Special Intensive Revision (SIR) ke khilaf taqat ke muzahire ka taza tareen silsila hai, jis ke bare mein opposition ka kehna hai ke ise lakhon voters ke naam fehriston se nikalne ke liye istemal kiya gaya. Hamayati Minto Road–Connaught Place junction se chale, kuch ne safed libas pehne hue thay jo un voters ki numainda tha jin ke bare mein un ka kehna hai ke unhein ghalat taur par murda darj kiya gaya, aur woh placards uthaye hue thay jin par "Vote chor, Gyanu" likha tha.
Samajwadi Party ke sarbarah Akhilesh Yadav, West Bengal ki sabiq chief minister Mamata Banerjee, RJD ke rahnuma Tejashwi Yadav aur Congress ki MP Priyanka Gandhi samet rahnumaon ne Kharge ki rihaishgah se aik saath safar kiya. Baen bazu ki jamaaton aur talba tanzeemon ne Delhi bhar ki jamiaat se daste le kar aaye. 3,000 se zyada police afsaran aur 10,000 ahalkar tainat kiye gaye, aur police ne maidan ke gird 250 tak CCTV cameras nasb kiye, jis ki gunjaish taqreeban 50,000 hai. Opposition ne 10 lakh logon ke shirkat karne ka andaza lagaya tha.
Gandhi ne hukmran Bharatiya Janata Party par ilzam lagaya ke us ne tehwaron ke mausam mein taajiron ko nuqsan pahunchane ke liye Connaught Place mein march ke raste par mojood dukanon ko band karne par majboor kiya, opposition ke hamayatiyon se maqami dukanon se kharidari ki apeel karne ke baad. "Hamara ehtijaj sirf aik jalse par khatm nahin hoga," Congress ke senior rahnuma Salman Khurshid ne kaha. "Hamari tehreek jari rahegi." Akhilesh Yadav ne kaha ke "na-insafi ki hadein paar kar di gayi hain".
BJP ke jawabi marches
BJP ne rally ko "mansooba band drama" qarar de kar mustarad kar diya. Party sadr J P Nadda ne Gandhi par Dhanteras, Diwali aur Chhath Puja ke dauran "Delhi ko mafloon karne" ki koshish karne aur bairooni taqaton ke "toolkit" ke taur par kaam karne ka ilzam lagaya. Party ne Rohtak, Faridabad aur Shimla mein mutawazi "Loktantra Bachao, Arajakta Hatao" (Jamhooriyat bachao, intishar hatao) marches nikale, jabke Wafaqi Wazir Dharmendra Pradhan ne Congress ko us lomri se tashbeeh di jo teen intikhabat haarne ke baad angoor ko khatta kehti hai.
Delhi ki Wazir-e-Aala Rekha Gupta ne darul hukumat mein BJP ke march ki qiyadat ki, jis mein party rehnuma 1984 ke Sikh mukhalif fasadat ke muqtooleen ki yaad mein kali pattiyan bandhe hue thay, aur Congress par ilzam lagaya ke us ne qatl-e-aam ki barsi ke din apni rally ki. Congress rehnuma Jairam Ramesh ne taqareer shuru hone se pehle Ramlila Maidan ke hujoom ko "insanon ka samandar" qarar diya, aur kaha ke "Gyanesh Kumar ki rukhsati ki ulti ginti mazeed tez ho rahi hai".
Hazb-e-ikhtilaf ne March mein Parliament ke donon aiwanon mein Kumar ki barkhastagi ke liye baqaida notice jama karaya, aur kaha hai ke woh Winter Session mein dobara is par zor dega. Election Commission ka kehna hai ke nazar-e-sani se mutawaffi, dohre aur muntaqil shuda voters hataye ja rahe hain.
