00:00As the showdown over SIR continues, the opposition is set to march to the Supreme Court today.
00:05India Bloc leaders' march is set to begin from Barakamba Road at around 1.30 p.m.
00:10Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, announced the march,
00:13calling on opposition parties, civil society groups and citizens to join the march
00:18and demand the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.
00:22Rahul Gandhi said that they would submit a memorandum to the Chief Justice of India,
00:25demanding an end to alleged vote chori, a halt to the special intensive revision of electoral rolls
00:33and Gyanesh Kumar's resignation.
00:35However, according to sources, Chief Justice of India's Justice Surya Kand
00:38has rejected the India Bloc's request for a meeting.
00:41Congress MP Shashi Tharoor also joined the call for the march to the Supreme Court,
00:46alleging the right to vote was being undermined
00:49and that the Chief Election Commissioner has been ignoring every rule and every law.
00:53Meanwhile, former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has accused the authorities of crossing all limits
00:59and even leaving Hitler behind, alleging that lawyers and journalists were dragged,
01:04beaten and detained during the protests.
01:06The BJP has hit back at the opposition, saying that it is trying to create disorder,
01:11mislead the public and push the country towards anarchy.
01:15The BJP has killed the police, killed the police.
01:20We don't want this Hinduism.
01:22Tomorrow we are going to march to the Supreme Court,
01:24not as a political party,
01:27not as individuals,
01:28not as men, not as women,
01:31not as people from different states, different communities, different castes.
01:34Tomorrow we are going to march as Indians.
01:37Every single person who believes in democracy,
01:41who wants to stand for democracy,
01:45please come with us.
01:47Doesn't matter what your affiliation is,
01:49as long as you're affiliated to the Constitution of India
01:52and you want to protect the Constitution of India.
01:54Come walk with us.
01:55There is nothing to fear.
01:57These cowards can do absolutely nothing to us.
01:59My fellow citizens,
02:01I stand proudly beside the flag of our nation,
02:04the flag that stands for our freedom, our democracy,
02:08that was won for us by the great freedom fighters
02:10of the independence generation.
02:13This flag is protected by a constitution
02:16that codifies the rights you have as citizens of India,
02:20the right to vote,
02:22to determine your own political choices
02:24and to safeguard your own destiny.
02:49This flag has always been given to us.
03:06Thank you very much.
03:32Thank you very much.
