Election body turns down Opposition MPs meeting over protocol rules

'240 MPs at Parliament Annexe unusual and unacceptable': Why ECI rejected meeting with Opposition MPs. The Election Commission of India on Tuesday rejected a meeting proposal with Opposition MPs, citing their demands as "unusual and unacceptable". The poll body also clarified that it had received no request from any political party for a meeting beforehand, and had intimated about it by the Delhi Police at around 4 pm. The poll body's statement comes after over 300 Opposition MPs of the INDIA bloc began a march from Parliament Complex to the Election Commission office, in a bid to meet with the Election Commissioners and hand over a formal memorandum to them. Rejecting the Opposition's reques