NEW DELHI: Days after some traders raised concerns about the impact on business of ‘Chalo Delhi’ rally on Nov 1, Congress’s Rahul Gandhi urged the traders to ask PM Narendra Modi to sack CEC Gyanesh Kumar to end the protests against ‘vote chori’.Rahul posted on X, “To every trader in Delhi: We love you and hear you. Government shut the metro, sealed the roads and locked down our capital. With a stolen vote, nothing is safe — your shop, savings, children’s future. Tell Modi to sack Gyanesh Kumar and the protests will stop in 30 seconds.”

Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge also slammed govt for rising inflation during the festival season, and urged people to join the Ramlila Maidan rally.In what may add more friction to the already fraught govt-opposition ties, Centre has not given it’s go ahead for “mock Parliament” at Ashoka Hotel on Oct 30, whose centrepiece would be the symbolic impeachment of Kumar. Sources said the “mock Parliament” may now be held at Ramlila Maidan.Party’s K C Venugopal confirmed to TOI that permission has been refused. “Government is saying no to every venue we are requesting.”