India 'cockroach' leaders detained after entering barricaded protest site
Police detained the leaders after they climbed barricades and entered the protest site to demand the election chief’s resignation.
- On Tuesday, top leaders of the Cockroach Janta Party were detained after jumping barricades at New Delhi's Jantar Mantar observatory to demand Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar's resignation over voter-list revisions.
- Internal dissent followed a voter-list revision that removed over 130 million names starting last year, including 28 million deceased and 63 million who relocated, according to Indian Express reports published last month.
- CJP leaders Ashutosh Ranka, Saurav Das, and Ajinkya Shinde were among about 20 volunteers who "sneaked" into the observatory to "reclaim" the site, waving the Indian flag before police detained them.
- Delhi Police announced on Monday that Jantar Mantar is no longer an official protest site, prompting CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke to declare on X, "You cannot denotify the resistance."
- The movement poses a significant challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party in his 12 years in power, while opposition groups allege voter revisions disproportionately affect Muslim voters.
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India’s ‘cockroach’ movement leaders arrested again as voter roll dispute grows
Leaders of India’s “cockroach” protest movement were detained again on Tuesday, their second detention in days, as a stand-off with authorities deepened over a contentious overhaul of voter rolls. Ashutosh Ranka and Saurav Das, two prominent faces of the youth-led Cockroach Janta Party, were taken into custody with other members after jumping barricades to enter Jantar Mantar, historically one of New Delhi’s main protest venues. Delhi police on …
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