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Congress Protests Across India Over SIR Row, Demands Poll Body Chief ResignCongress workers and leaders staged demonstrations across various parts of India, including Srinagar, Ranchi, Patna, and Jaipur, protesting against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and the Bharatiya Janata Party over the Special Intensive Revision row. Demonstrators outside the Pradesh Congress headquarters in Srinagar burned effigies and displayed placards reading 'vote chor gaddi chhod', demanding the Chief Election Commissioner's resignation. Security forces set up barricades and deployed riot control measures, including water cannons, to halt protest marches. Inside assembly corridors and outside chief electoral offices, Congress cadres questioned the autonomy and operations of the Election Commission of India. Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge convened a party working committee meeting, stating the dispute concerns the existence of democracy and the nation's survival. In response, Bharatiya Janata Party leadership accused opposition parties of running a coordinated agenda to defame constitutional institutions and create public disruption, noting that earlier clarifications from the poll body confirmed decisions regarding the Special Intensive Revision process were reached unanimously.