Founder of India’s Gen-Z ‘Cockroach’ movement detained ahead of planned protest, party says
- On Saturday, October 10, 2026, authorities sealed Central Delhi to block a youth protest demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over alleged voter list manipulation.
- Demonstrations were launched after the Indian Express reported that Kumar's deputies disagreed with him over a revision process that saw 130 million voter names removed from lists.
- To thwart protesters, authorities cancelled long-distance trains and shut 57 metro stations, while mobile internet services were suspended within a 4-kilometer radius of Jantar Mantar.
- Led by the "Cockroach Janta Party," the "Save Democracy" protest challenges what critics claim is a voter revision process favoring Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party.
- These near-daily demonstrations pose a political challenge to Modi ahead of 2027 state elections, though the Election Commission and Bharatiya Janata Party have denied all allegations of misconduct.
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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
The leader of the 'bathing party', the driving force of the student revolt in India, was arrested today in New Delhi by the first of the unauthorized demonstration that he called to demand the resignation of the president of the electoral commission... (ANSA)
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