Founder of India’s Gen-Z ‘Cockroach’ movement detained ahead of planned protest, party says
Police detained CJP leaders and tightened security as the group sought to challenge voter-roll revisions that have removed more than 130 million names.
- On Sunday, hundreds of CRPF and RAF personnel detained protesters at Connaught Place during the SFI's women-only Tiranga rally near Rajiv Chowk Metro stations Gate 7. Former JNU students' union president and SFI member Aishe Ghosh was pulled from a bus after a standoff lasting around 15 minutes.
- The demonstrations, occurring on the second day, targeted Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, with heavy security and detention buses remaining in Connaught Place as a reminder that the protests were far from over.
- For Khushi , who attended despite fear from earlier July protests, the police treatment of women was "horrendous," while around 10 activists briefly blocked a departing bus before officers cleared the area.
- Connaught Place began a hesitant return to its weekend rhythm on Sunday, though footfall remained well below typical levels; Lajpat Nagar resident Aarti noted the market "does not even feel like" its usual self.
- Despite the Supreme Court's directions and resumed Metro services, concrete barricades remained at several points leading into New Delhi, with heavy deployment around Jantar Mantar suggesting that the easing of restrictions remains limited.
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India's 'cockroach' leaders vow to keep up election protests
Leaders of India's youth-led "cockroach" movement on Sunday pledged to press on with protests against the country's election commissioner, hours after they were released from detention, as authorities sought to thwart major demonstrations in New Delhi.
Red Alert: Delhi is Militarised as Millions Mobilise Against Mass Disenfranchisement
We write from the barricades of Jantar Mantar, where the Government of India has deployed armed forces against citizens protesting mass disenfranchisement and defending their right to vote. Since 2025, more than 130 million names have been struck from India’s draft electoral rolls — an unprecedented project of disenfranchisement in the world’s largest democracy. Evidence [...]
Demonstrations were planned in New Delhi this weekend against the cleaning of voter registers, which opponents say wrongfully deprives millions of citizens of their right to vote.
The Cockroach Janta Party movement is demonstrating against the review of the electoral registers. Their allegations are delicate for the Delhi government, which has 2000 people arrested. The world's largest democracy is wrestling for its credibility.
<p>Massive protests over electoral reform continue in India's capital — police detain thousands of people In New Delhi, protests against electoral reform continue, thousands of people detained. The Supreme Court ordered the restoration of the Internet and transport.</p>
Sympathizing of the "cafard party", opposition and trade unions converged on 10 October towards the capital, denouncing electoral fraud. The security forces violently repulsed them, giving some time to the government, in the impasse in the face of the "Gen Z" sling that has been rising since June.
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