Sri Vijaya Puram, Oct. 12: CITU, Andaman & Nicobar State Committee organized a mass demonstration in front of the Municipal Council at Aberdeen Bazar on 10th October, 2026 evening, demanding resignation of Shri Gyanesh Kumar, Chief Election Commissioner. Effigy of Gyanesh Kumar was also placed at the venue of the programme.
Addressing the participants in the mass demonstration, Indrani Mukherjee, CITU All India Working Committee, who was on a visit to the islands, said that large scale protest is taking place throughout the country against the exclusion of crores of voters from the electoral rolls. She alleged that the Police in Delhi is suppressing the democratic protests. Women, students, workers and all sections of the people are coming out against the government and the Chief Election Commissioner.
Speaking on the occasion, Madhuja Sen Roy, CITU All India General Council Member and ASHA Workers Federation leader, said that workers are on the streets on the day demanding resignation of the Chief Election Commissioner and withdrawal of SIR-based electoral rolls. She said that the government has arrested a number of CITU leaders and manhandled them in Delhi. She said that Gyanesh Kumar has to resign, only then will the agitation end. She further said that the present government is an autocratic government which is silencing all the democratic voices of the people.
CITU leaders, R. Surendran Pillai, B. Chandrachoodan, D. Ayyappan, M. Yugander and Anand Rajan also addressed the gathering. A large number of workers from Port Blair town and rural South Andaman areas attended the mass demonstration.
At Diglipur in North Andaman, CITU and AIKS jointly organized the mass demonstration in front of the office of the Assistant Commissioner and burnt the effigy of Gyanesh Kumar.
At Rangat in Middle Andaman, CITU organized a mass demonstration which was led by Projit Kumar Sarkar, President and C. Karuppaiah, Secretary of CITU Rangat Zonal Committee.