Opposition parties sought the removal of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar after a news report claimed that two of the three election commissioners, Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi, formally recorded objections at least 14 times over ten months. The report said the commissioners objected that major decisions were being made in the name of the full Election Commission without their knowledge, and that several of those decisions were “unauthorised and illegal,” according to the account. The opposition also demanded the CEC’s impeachment, according to the source. Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi said “vote chori” was a crime against the Indian people and a direct attack on the Constitution. A statement cited in the account said the vote theft and Special Intensive Revision (SIR) questions that Rahul Gandhi had consistently raised were “proving to be correct.”