Indian Youth Leader Says Protest Will Go Ahead Despite Detentions
- Delhi Police denied the Cockroach Janta Party permission to protest at Jantar Mantar on October 10, citing short notice, alleged earlier violations, and law-and-order concerns.
- The protest would demand Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation over alleged electoral irregularities and concerns about voter-roll changes, according to the Cockroach Janta Party.
- Cockroach Janta Party founder Abhijeet Dipke said the protest should continue even if authorities detained him, adding, “I will not be cowed down because we want to save the democracy in the country.”
- Authorities planned a major security operation involving 221 Central Armed Police Forces companies and additional Delhi Police personnel.
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The leader of the movement "the thinkers, the spearhead of the student revolt in India, was arrested on Saturday in New Delhi by the police prior to the unauthorized demonstration he announced in order to request the resignation of the President of the Electoral Commission, according to his party, quoted by AFP. "Abhijeet Dipke was arrested!" wrote "The Party of the People of the Thinkers (CJP) on social networks, ...
The cockroach movement has planned a large demonstration against India's Election Commissioner on Saturday.
India deploys police, restricts transport ahead of major protest
The protests, called by the youth-led Cockroach Janata Party (CJP), are the culmination of weeks of opposition mobilisation following allegations of misconduct during a nationwide voter-roll revision. Demonstrations erupted across the country after a newspaper investigation last month alleged misconduct by the Election Commission of India (ECI). The ECI has rejected allegations of impropriety in the "special intensive revision", saying it was in…
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