00:00Senior Congress Leader and Karnataka Minister Satish Jarkiyoli has taken the wind out of the Congress Party's sails on attacking
00:07the special intensive revision of the electoral rolls.
00:10The Congress calls it vote-jury. Satish Jarkiyoli says we don't protest about the SIR in Karnataka.
00:17SIR has been done properly in Karnataka.
00:19On his own party colleagues attacking the Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and the Election Commission over deletion of close
00:26to one crore names,
00:27Satish Jarkiyoli says people have died, people have shifted or there were duplications.
00:34This is exactly what the EC has been saying all along on deletion of voter list and its purification.
00:41Now, the statement perhaps couldn't have come at a worse time for the Congress Party that's planning a mock parliament
00:48and a mock impeachment of the CEC Gyanesh Kumar
00:52at the residence of Congress Party President Malik Arjun Karge who incidentally comes from Karnataka.
00:57So, Karge's own party leader and minister from his state Karnataka has emphatically defended the special intensive revision or SIR
01:06in the state saying SIR was conducted properly.
01:09He, in fact, wants other states to follow the same process.
01:14Rahul Gandhi's entire vote-jury narrative incidentally had started from Karnataka.
01:19But has Jarkiyoli punctured his balloon?
01:24On the electoral exercise, two very different narratives from the same political party and the same state.
01:31Jarkiyoli is not only Congress leader in Karnataka from Karnataka, he's also a minister.
01:38And Karnataka is not the only state.
01:40Even in Kerala, the Congress has said the special intensive revision of the electoral rolls benefited the Congress Party, helping
01:47them win elections.
01:48But let's for a moment talk about what's been said about Karnataka.
01:53The Karnataka numbers are significant.
01:56Nearly 1.08 crore voters were not enumerated in Karnataka's draft electoral rolls.
02:04Of these, 65.45 lakh were marked permanently shifted, 19 lakh absent, 16.39 lakh deceased and about 7.09
02:18lakh either duplicate or enrolled elsewhere.
02:23Following notices and hearings, 61,867 electors were declared ineligible for inclusion in the final roll.
02:33A separate category from those not enumerated in the draft.
02:40Let's now talk about Kerala, where the Congress not only won elections, it formed the government.
02:45And Ramesh Chanitala said SIR helped the Congress Party in Kerala by removing alleged bogus votes linked, he said, to
02:55the CPIM.
02:56Senior Congress leader and former minister Shashi Tharoor acknowledged the need to address, duplicate, deceased and unregistered voters.
03:07And that's not all.
03:08So, you had other leaders who said, SIR removed fake voters and helped Congress in several constituencies.
03:16And yet, Rahul Gandhi alleges vote chori and is demanding action against the Chief Election Commissioner, Gyanesh Kumar.
03:23Rahul Gandhi, in fact, in a video, urged people across the country to join the Chalo Dilli protest march,
03:29telling them not to fear police or lathees and calling for a march to defend the Constitution and the soul
03:37of the government.
03:39Oh, words to that effect.
03:40The India Bloc leaders will now meet at Congress Party President Malikarjun Kharge's residence
03:44for a symbolic public impeachment of the CEC.
03:49A mock parliament and a mock impeachment.
03:52India Bloc is preparing to present its allegations and complaints in this mock parliament session.
03:58But the BJP has hit back.
04:00They've questioned the opposition's credibility and they've defended the Election Commission.
04:05In fact, BJP President Nithin Nabeen, he said democracy is in safe hands under Prime Minister Narendra Modi
04:10and insists that the BJP will continue to work in national interest.
04:14Union Health Minister J.P. Nadda, he's accused the opposition of trying to spread anarchy,
04:19calling for what he describes is an end to this anarchist mindset.
04:25J.P. Nadda also questioned the vote chori charge itself,
04:29asking how can the opposition allege vote chori when it wins elections in several states.
04:36So as the Congress escalates its battle against the Election Commission
04:40and the Chief Election Commissioner,
04:42questions over its own contrasting positions and SIR are now growing louder.
04:48If the electoral roll clean-up is welcome in Karnataka
04:51and has been beneficial in Kerala,
04:54what explains the fierce opposition only when the Congress Party loses elections?
05:00We will debate that.
05:01But first, let's listen in to different voices on this very complex issue.
05:36In most of the Congress
05:38Well, they know the truth and the SIR has helped.
05:42Even in Kerala, Chenitaal was Congress leader, state leader.
05:47He was the president once.
05:49He was a senior leader of the Congress.
05:50He also expressed, because of the SIR, we came to power in the Kerala.
05:57Congress party leader has told.
05:59In so many, even Jammu Kashmir CM, Omar Abdullah, he is also telling,
06:04because of the SIR, I came into power in the Jammu and Kashmir.
06:08So, internally, all the people, Congress people, they will like SIR here in Karnataka.
06:15That's a very clear indication that this is a conspiracy theory that has its roots all over the place.
06:22And it's centralized.
06:24And we will get to the bottom of it.
06:26So, I have information on what has happened.
06:29In Vijaypur, more than 40-50 people who have declared dead and Form 7 were submitted,
06:37that they have gone and complained to the DC over there, saying that we are not dead, we are alive.
06:43So, all these things have happened.
06:44So, I am not sure what information Mr. Zarkioli has, but I am basing my statements on things that have
06:53happened in Kalburgi and elsewhere.
06:55There is one protest there, the nation's protest.
06:58Don't worry about the police.
07:01Don't worry about the lathees.
07:03The BJP will not have the guts to try any of their antics.
07:08Come march with us, we will walk together to protect the constitution, to protect the
07:15Indian nation.
07:25I urge all student groups, regardless of your political affiliation, if you feel that
07:33India is under attack, if you feel you are under attack, your expression, your ideas,
07:39your way of thinking is under attack, come and join us, it will be a fantastic march
07:45and it's a march for the soul of this country.
07:48Looking forward to seeing all of you there.
07:50How do you see this public impeachment that's going to happen?
07:54What is the schedule?
07:55What have you all discussed and is there going to be a skit or a mock parliament or is it
08:00going to be a more sombre atmosphere there?
08:03It won't be a mock parliament.
08:05We are not going to replicate parliament as such.
08:08Nevertheless, there will be certain elements or verticals of a parliamentary proceedings.
08:13We would have a presiding officer of imbuckal integrity and the students.
08:18We would have the leader of the opposition, Daji Sava, moving the notice of impeachment.
08:23And we will have party representatives speaking there also.
08:27At the end of the discourse, we will have an voting also to ensure that the impeachment
08:32motion is passed.
08:33So it's not a mock impeachment as such, it's a representative impeachment.
08:39Since Daji Sava chairman and Daji Sava speaker didn't entertain our notice which was proper,
08:44signed by the stipulated numbers which have been there in the constitution, we have no other
08:50way but to hold this representative impeachment and we also thought that to give slot or windows
08:57to civil society and the victims of the SIR, they also will present the case.
09:02They will also.
09:02So will they also, they will also present the case.
09:05They will also present the case.
09:05And will there be some former judges or legal luminaries we are told who would also be present?
09:10You know, civil society, we have not decided as such, I mean, who would come, if at all.
09:15People with legal blend or legal background, they can also be part of it.
09:20We are finalizing it.
09:21But these are the condors of the program that has been chartered out.
09:25Thank you very much, Mr. Vitaas.
09:26Thank you very much, Mr. Vitaas.
