Security stepped up in India's capital for 'cockroach' movement rally
Police deployed more than 6,000 personnel and 220 CAPF companies as the CJP planned a flag march to demand its jailed leaders’ release.
- The Delhi High Court agreed to hear a plea seeking to stop the Cockroach Janta Party’s proposed October 16 protest at Central Park in Connaught Place.
- Senior Advocate Sacchin Puri said the protest could disrupt Connaught Place and affect access to the area.
- CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke called on supporters to gather with the national flag after members Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka were sent to five-day judicial custody.
- Street vendor Anil Kumar Gupta’s petition argues that protests and traffic restrictions harm small traders and requests enforcement of designated protest venues.
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India detains top 'cockroach' leader as hundreds protest in capital
Dipke, 31, was detained shortly before a rally called by the online movement in the heart of New Delhi where hundreds of protesters marched on Friday evening, despite heavy security measures. The CJP founder had urged supporters to gather in the capital's busy commercial hub of Connaught Place with Indian flags in a show of solidarity after two of his colleagues were detained this week for breaching security barricades at Jantar Mantar, a prote…
The mobilization of Indian youth is growing as the opposition and the Cafard People's Party denounce a revision of the electoral lists, considered discriminatory by many demonstrators.
Indian police detain ‘cockroach’ movement leader ahead of New Delhi protest
Police detained India’s ‘cockroach’ movement founder Abhijeet Dipke on Friday, live images from his group showed, ahead of a protest called by him in capital New Delhi’s central business district, the latest rally to demand the resignation of India’s election chief. The youth-led ‘Cockroach Janta Party’ (CJP), opposition groups and student organisations have held almost daily protests this month demanding Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kum…
Abhijeet Dipke stopped in New Delhi as he left his home to go to a demonstration he called against the revision of the electoral lists
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