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 at the airport, preventing him from leading a planned protest at Jantar Mantar against the Election Commission.
- Demonstrators demand the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, alleging the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls disenfranchised voters by removing 130 million names nationwide, a claim the commission denies.
- Authorities deployed roughly 23,000 security personnel across New Delhi, shuttering 57 metro stations and canceling 38 trains to seal off the protest site, according to official reports and Northern Railway data.
- Police detained over 150 protesters, including influencer Dhruv Rathee, while the Supreme Court directed authorities to maintain regulated public transport services to minimize inconvenience during the security clampdown.
- Officials defend the security measures as necessary to maintain public order, while critics and opposition parties condemn the crackdown as an authoritarian effort to suppress democratic dissent and fundamental rights.
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Indian police have detained Abhijit Dipke, leader of the cockroaches' People's Party, and two of his associates in front of the protest, reporting "Al-Arabiya" on Saturday.
The Indian police are calling on government critics to cancel a major demonstration, which is to be prevented by all means: tens of thousands of police officers and paramilitary forces are sent to the capital, thousands are arrested, streets and the Internet are blocked.
These young people of the Indian Gen Z are contesting an electoral reform, which provides for the delisting of millions of registered, for the benefit of the party of ultra-nationalist Hindu Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
India detains youth ‘cockroach’ leader to defuse rally against election chief
Police detained scores of protesters and their leaders on in the Indian capital on Saturday amid patrols by thousands of security forces, with travel and telecoms links suspended, in a lockdown to stop a youth protest asking the election chief to quit. The protest by the ‘Cockroach’ youth movement aimed to draw thousands of demonstrators […]
Before a planned demonstration against India's election commission, the founder of the so-called cockroach movement has been arrested. The movement calls for the resignation of the election commission chief.
The police arrest hundreds of protesters and leaders of an online satire movement demanding the resignation of India's chief of election after the removal of 130 million names from the census Read
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