Founder of India’s Gen-Z ‘Cockroach’ movement detained ahead of planned protest, party says
- On Saturday, October 10, 2026, Delhi Police detained Cockroach Janta Party founder Abhijeet Dipke and leaders Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka at New Delhi's airport, blocking their planned demonstration at Jantar Mantar.
- The CJP movement emerged to challenge the Election Commission of India's 'Special Intensive Revision' of voter rolls, which critics allege disenfranchised millions to benefit Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party .
- Authorities deployed roughly 23,000 security personnel across the capital, closed 57 metro stations, cancelled 38 trains, and suspended mobile internet services within a 4-kilometer radius of the protest site.
- Opposition figures Rahul Gandhi and Arvind Kejriwal condemned the crackdown as an "absolute dictatorship," while government officials dismissed protesters as "anarchic elements" after hundreds were detained across the city.
- The Supreme Court directed authorities to identify a designated protest venue with basic amenities, while the voter-roll controversy remains a significant political challenge ahead of key state elections in 2027.
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Indian police arrested the leader of the popular youth movement the 'cucarachas' along with thousands of protesters who were enlisting to protest.
The authorities tried to prevent a massive youth demonstration on Saturday, October 10, by making thousands of arrests. The cockroaches party, which was the cause of the mobilization, promised to be back on the streets of the capital as soon as SundayThe mobilization of Indian youth was colossal this Saturday, October 10, in New Delhi. At the call of the cockroach movement, a satirical party born of a joke on the internet in May, of left-wing st…
In the Indian capital of New Delhi, the police stopped government-critical protests.
Indian police in New Delhi have detained hundreds of protesters and the leader of the "Cockroaches" youth movement.
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