If Gyanesh Kumar goes, Modi will have to follow suit: Dipke

Thousands of protesters demonstrated outside Mumbai’s Shivaji Park on Friday (October 2, 2026) against alleged irregularities in electoral rolls and the Election Commission’s special intensive revision (SIR) exercise, organised by Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) on the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.

Also Read: CEC protest updates on October 2, 2026

Though police permission was not granted for the protest, the demonstrators sat outside the historic Shivaji Park’s gates in Dadar with the tricolour in their hands seeking the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, while CJP conveners Abhijeet Dipke, Ashutosh Ranka, Saurav Das, and its head of legal affairs Ratna Singh, addressed the protesters raising slogans of ‘Gyanesh, it’s done, bro’.

The air was filled with slogans of ‘Inquilab Zindabad ', ‘Ek Jeera, Do Ajwain, Gyanesh karo resign’, ‘Gyanu kaka… rajinama dya, rajinama dya’, while the beats of patriotic songs like Rang De Basanti added colour, sound and defiance to an otherwise quiet afternoon at the park.

CJP has demanded the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and subsequent criminal proceedings against him to reveal who gave the orders for such an exercise, freeze the SIR process, restoring the January 2025 voters list, and repeal the 2023 law governing appointment of Election Commissioners and bring a new transparent mechanism with civil society participation.