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Founder of India’s Gen-Z ‘Cockroach’ movement detained ahead of planned protest, party says

  • On Saturday, October 10, Delhi Police detained Cockroach Janta Party founder Abhijeet Dipke and two other leaders at the airport, enforcing a massive security lockdown across the capital to prevent a planned protest at Jantar Mantar.
  • Protesters oppose the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls, demanding Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar's resignation over allegations that over 130 million voters have been disenfranchised to benefit the Bharatiya Janata Party .
  • Authorities deployed more than 35,000 security personnel across Delhi, shutting 57 metro stations and cancelling 38 trains to deter the march, citing the possibility of "unruly" mobs and CJP's past violations of protest undertakings.
  • Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal condemned the detentions as an "absolute dictatorship," while Congress leader Rahul Gandhi expressed solidarity with detained activists, calling the crackdown unprecedented.
  • The Supreme Court directed authorities to ensure regulated metro and train services to minimize public inconvenience, while the government maintains the voter revision removes duplicate and ineligible entries, not disenfranchising legitimate voters.
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The Print broke the news in New Delhi, India on Wednesday, October 7, 2026.
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