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Rahul Gandhi has called on people to gather at the protest site in large numbers
Tens of thousands of people have begun gathering in Indian capital Delhi for a major opposition rally demanding the resignation of the country's chief election commissioner and reforms to the electoral system.
The rally, organised by the main opposition Congress party, was due to begin at noon (06:30 GMT) at the Ramlila Maidan grounds, but has yet to get under way.
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Several leaders of the Congress-led INDIA opposition alliance are expected to attend, while the Gen Z-led pressure group Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) has also pledged its support.
This is the latest show of opposition anger over a voter-list revision exercise that has removed 130 million names from draft electoral rolls in India.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) says the exercise is aimed at updating the voters' list by purging names of people who have died or moved away from their registered addresses.
But opposition parties allege that the exercise - known as the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) - could benefit Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) by removing eligible voters from the rolls. They accuse the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) and the BJP of "vote chori (theft)". Both the BJP and the ECI have denied the allegations.
The controversy intensified in September when The Indian Express newspaper in its investigation , external reported that the CEC, Gyanesh Kumar, made key decisions related to the exercise without the agreement of the two other election commissioners, who had raised objections on more than a dozen occasions.
Protests have been going on for weeks seeking CEC Kumar's resignation and electoral reforms
The Election Commission said differences of opinion were normal in any institution and did not affect its functioning.
But concerns over the revision process have continued, with the opposition parties, the CJP and student groups organising a number of protests in Delhi and other Indian cities.
On Saturday, opposition leaders staged a symbolic impeachment of Kumar at Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge's residence in Delhi.
The mock parliamentary session, presided over by former Lok…