Thackeray cousins plan joint Mumbai march against voter-roll revision

{'type': 'paragraph', 'text': 'Raj Thackeray of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena and Uddhav Thackeray of Shiv Sena (UBT) will lead a joint public march in Mumbai on October 4 against the Election Commission of India’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. The organisers said the venue and start time would be announced later.'}

{'type': 'paragraph', 'text': 'Announcing the march, Raj Thackeray urged opposition parties to unite over the voter-roll review. He called for the SIR exercise to be scrapped, citing reports of irregularities and saying that some election officials had themselves spoken out about problems in the process.'}

{'type': 'paragraph', 'text': 'Raj also accused the Election Commission of being aligned with the BJP and alleged that Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar was defrauding citizens. Those are Raj Thackeray’s political allegations; the report does not establish them as fact. He separately advocated a return to paper-ballot voting.'}

{'type': 'paragraph', 'text': 'The planned march brings the two political camps together around their criticism of the electoral review. Details of the route and other arrangements have not yet been released. The Hindu reported that the Mumbai march is set for October 4, with the time and location to follow.'}