India’s Ruling Alliance Answers Protest With Ten Questions And A Charge Of Anarchy
Two ministers from India’s ruling alliance challenged the opposition on Tuesday to answer ten questions over its campaign against the country’s electoral rolls and accused it of abandoning constitutional remedies for the street
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Goyal invoked B R Ambedkar, who chaired the drafting committee of India’s constitution, paraphrasing his warning that abandoning constitutional methods when they are available is the grammar of anarchy.
The Congress had never filed a sworn affidavit with the Election Commission setting out its allegations, Goyal said, and had filed no claims for inclusion or exclusion while the roll revision was under way. He asked why the party was silent during the exercise in Bihar, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal.
He said senior Congress figures had publicly called for duplicated names and those of the dead to be struck off. He named some leaders who he said had said that the Congress party won Kerala because of the revision, he said, and Kerala’s chief minister had praised it too.
If the opposition believed elections were rigged, Goyal asked, why had its six chief ministers not resigned. He said the street was unjustified.
पिछले कई दिनों से इस देश में जिस तरह से नौटंकी और ड्रामा कर देश में अराजकता फैलाने का प्रयास किया जा रहा है, देश की संवैधानिक संस्थाओं को बदनाम करने का प्रयास किया जा रहा है, जनता उसे कभी माफ नहीं करेगी। देश में संविधान सर्वोपरि है, परिवार सर्वोपरि नहीं है। उनके लिए परिवार सर्वोपरि है और परिवार को आगे बढ़ाने के लिए वे संवैधानिक संस्थाओं को बदनाम कर रहे हैं। आप (राहुल गांधी) सर्वोच्च न्यायालय के सामने प्रदर्शन कर रहे हैं। क्या आज तक देश के इतिहास में ऐसा हुआ है कि किसी राजनीतिक दल ने सुप्रीम कोर्ट के सामने प्रदर्शन किया हो? आप याचिका दायर नहीं कर सकते, और सुप्रीम कोर्ट के सामने प्रदर्शन कर रहे हैं। उनके प्रयास का एकमात्र तात्पर्य यह है कि देश की संवैधानिक संस्थाओं पर दबाव बनाया जाए, लेकिन यह मोदी जी का शासनकाल है और यहां दबाव काम नहीं करता। - श्री @LalanSingh_1
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Goyal also said the opposition could not file a petition properly. The Supreme Court registry has recorded defects in Monday’s filing, including missing authorisation, an unreadable identity document and a shortfall in the court fee.
Singh said no political party in India’s history had demonstrated outside the Supreme Court. He compared the campaign to the period before the Emergency of 1975, said he had been jailed then, and said Bihar’s voters had already answered by cutting the Congress from 19 assembly seats to six.
Goyal said the demonstrations had been called by left-wing organisations rather than students and that turnout was small for a city of more than 20 million.
The opposition says the revision has removed about 130 million names from electoral rolls. It wants the exercise halted, a return to paper ballots and CEC's resignation. The Election Commission says that its decisions were lawful.