In an editorial in its mouthpiece Saamana, the Uddhav Thackeray-led party said protests against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls were being witnessed across the country, but the AAP and DMK had stayed away from the INDIA bloc’s protest against the CEC

The meeting brought together Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, former party chiefs Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, AICC general secretaries Jairam Ramesh and K C Venugopal, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee and leaders of several other opposition parties