Both AAP and DMK have exited the INDIA bloc. NEW DELHI: Should Arvind Kejriwal’s AAP and MK Stalin’s DMK join INDIA bloc’s fight against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over SIR?
Well, the answer would surely be “yes”, as far as the allies of the bloc are concerned. Now to the more difficult question: Will Arvind Kejriwal’s AAP and MK Stalin’s DMK join INDIA bloc’s fight against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over SIR?
Well, there is no straight answer to this one. The AAP and the DMK have a common enemy in the Congress.
Uddhav Thackeray’s Shiv Sena (UBT) has now urged the two parties to set aside their differences with the grand-old-party to fight against "dictatorship". "-The absence of both parties, who have officially withdrawn from the INDIA bloc, has highlighted the existing differences within the opposition camp on the strategy and format of the protest against irregularities in the SIR process.'
A very critical request' Former Congress leader and senior political commentator Sanjay Jha feels Shiv Sena (UBT)'s suggestion to both the DMK and the Aam Aadmi Party to join the INDIA bloc is a very practical, very reasonable, and at the moment, a very critical request." This is not about, at the moment, anything other than the fact that Indian democracy is in peril.
It is unlikely that the CEC is going to resign of his own volition. It is pretty apparent that the government of Mr.
Modi is going to be stubborn, and they will stonewall any effort by the opposition to demand and get accountability. Public protests don't seem to make any difference to the government.
So the more the merrier," Sanjay Jha says. While the AAP has openly announced it will not be a part of the INDIA bloc’s protest and said “we are fighting this battle in our own way, the DMK has spoken in different tones.
DMK spokesperson Saravanan Annadurai accused Rahul of adopting inconsistent positions on the electoral roll revision exercise and questioned why developments in Tamil Nadu had not received the same attention as the broader campaign against the Election Commission. In a post on X, Annadurai called on Rahul Gandhi to clarify his stand on allegations concerning names allegedly removed from Tamil Nadu’s electoral rolls during the SIR process.
The DMK spokesperson also referred to a statement attributed to Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge that governments elected after the SIR exercise should be dissolved and sought clarification on why Rahul Gandhi had not publicly endorsed that position and whether such a stand would also apply to Tamil Nadu. “It is the right of citizens to fight against the government’s wrongdoings.
