00:00Now, I want to just bring in Saurav Das into this conversation.
00:03Saurav Das, you and your colleagues with your pressure group, CJP,
00:07said that 48 hours, if the election commissioner,
00:11CEC, Chief Election Commissioner, Mr. Gyanesh Kumar, does not resign,
00:16you are going to sit in at a Jantar Mantar-like protest.
00:20What are the contours of this protest if he doesn't resign?
00:26See, the young generation is very creative.
00:28You saw the kind of creative content and the methods that they used
00:32during the Jantar Mantar protests.
00:34How it is going to pan out, that time will tell.
00:37But definitely, there needs to be a larger discussion now
00:41about the state of affairs in the country,
00:44and there definitely needs to be a pushback against such authoritarian tactics
00:50of disenfranchising people at such a mass level.
00:5313 crore people have been deleted because of the SIR,
00:57are the special intensive revision by Gyanesh Kumar,
01:00are going against the other two election commissioners.
01:03Despite the vote being one is to two, Gyanesh Kumar was prevailing.
01:06So who ordered him to do all of this?
01:08Because it can't just be Gyanesh Kumar, Preeti.
01:11It has to be someone in the government, a higher up person.
01:15Sort of, you know, you and your group have built a certain amount of capital and credibility
01:21where your pressure group extracted the resignation of the then education minister.
01:26Do you think sticking your neck out on this issue,
01:29getting into protest mode,
01:30you will be able to attract the similar kind of crowds
01:33that you attracted in Jantar Mantar?
01:35Do you think people will come out,
01:37Gen Z will come out in droves to support you?
01:39Do you think it could also be a credibility crisis for you?
01:44No, I don't think there's a question of credibility here.
01:47The only question of credibility here is of the election commission of India.
01:51And why are we getting into this matter, Preeti?
01:53It's not a political party's issue per se.
01:56It is about the young generation, the Gen Zs who are being stopped from being voters since 2024.
02:03Preeti, we can go doing our school thikaro, fix the schools, fix Adivasi schools,
02:09listening to us, fix the hospitals.
02:11We can do all of that.
02:12But none of that is going to matter if people are unable to vote.
02:16All right, Saurav, thank you there for joining us.
02:19A 48-hour ultimatum is what the pressure group, Kokro Janata Party, has issued.
02:24If that doesn't happen, they are getting into protest mode, like Jantar Mantar,
02:28but Saurav's not really confirming what will the contours look like.
