India Youth Protest Leaders Detained After Entering Barricaded Delhi Protest Site
The party said about 20 volunteers entered the barricaded site to protest voter-roll irregularities and demand Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation.
- On Tuesday, Delhi Police detained Cockroach Janta Party leaders Ashutosh Ranka, Saurav Das, and Ajinkya Shinde after they entered the Jantar Mantar protest site early in the morning.
- Delhi Police announced on Monday that Jantar Mantar is no longer a "designated site" for protests, designating three new venues—Ramlila Ground, Burari Ground, and CBD Ground in East Delhi—instead.
- Scaling a gate near the JDU office, leaders waved the Tricolour while raising slogans including "Bharat mata ki jai" and "Gyanesh Kumar must resign" to protest alleged "vote chori."
- CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke posted on X that "Cockroaches with the Tiranga sneaked into Jantar Mantar early this morning before they were picked up by Delhi Police," adding, "You cannot denotify the resistance."
- Congress leader Jairam Ramesh criticized the venue's denotification, accusing the government of restricting dissent and writing, "It is a definite sign of the extreme panic that has gripped the PM-HM duo.
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(Jakarta=Yonhap News) Correspondent Son Hyun-kyu = Key figures of a Generation Z (born between 1995 and 2007) political movement group leading protests in India demanding the resignation of the election commission chairman...
India youth protest leaders detained after entering barricaded Delhi protest site
The detentions on Tuesday (Oct 13) came after Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) leaders entered Jantar Mantar, an iconic site for demonstrations that police had removed from New Delhi's list of designated protest venues a day earlier.
Indian police detain ‘cockroach’ movement leaders demanding election chief’s resignation
NEW DELHI, Oct 13 (Reuters) - Top leaders of India's "cockroach" youth movement were detained on Tuesday after they jumped barricades to enter the grounds of a historic observatory popular for protests, chanting slogans demanding the chief election com...
Indian police detain ‘cockroach’ movement leaders demanding election chief’s resignation - Regional Media News
NEW DELHI, Oct 13 (Reuters) - Top leaders of India's "cockroach" youth movement were detained on Tuesday after they jumped barricades to enter the grounds of a historic observatory popular for protests, chanting slogans demanding the chief election commissioner's resignation over a controversial revision of voter lists. Supporters of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) and opposition groups have held almost daily protests this month to demand commis…
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