Senior Congress leader expressed grave concern over systematic assault on India’s
K. C. Venugopal Alleges Assault on Democracy, Questions Electoral Integrity in West Bengal, and Calls for a Fight to Protect the Constitution Senior Congress leader and AICC General Secretary (Organisation) and Member of Parliament, Shri K. C. Venugopal, today addressed a press conference in Kolkata and expressed grave concern over what he described as a systematic assault on India’s democratic institutions, electoral integrity and constitutional values. Shri Venugopal alleged that the electoral process in West Bengal had been seriously compromised through the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, under which nearly 27 lakh names were deleted from the electoral rolls on the ground of “logical discrepancy.” There are lakhs of pending cases in the tribal and he further stated that such large-scale deletions raise fundamental questions about the credibility of the electoral process and a government elected under such circumstances cannot be said to have emerged from a truly free and ...