New delhi: Around 300 members of the Indian parliament from opposition parties on Monday marched towards the election commission headquarters in New Delhi in protest against alleged irregularities in past elections. Media reports said that several MPs, including opposition leader Rahul Gandhi, and others staged a march from the parliament building to the commission office in protest against the special intensive revision of electoral rolls in Bihar and alleged electoral malpractices in the last legislative elections. According to Kuwait News Agency, police prevented the protesting MPs from reaching the commission headquarters by erecting barricades on their route and detaining several protestors. Addressing the media after the legislators' detention, Gandhi said in a statement that the fight is not political but to save the constitution adding, "The truth is before the entire country." In a speech at the parliament, Gandhi had exposed purported malpractices in the last elections as thousands of people allege dly voted more than once. The protesting MPs are demanding intervention by the commission and taking necessary punitive action against the culprits.
