India's 'cockroach' movement founder arrested after detention, media reports say
Police said the preventive arrest was made to avert a breach of peace as nearly 500 protesters gathered over voter-list deletions.
- On Friday, police arrested Indian "cockroach" movement founder Abhijeet Dipke in New Delhi ahead of a rally demanding the election chief's resignation. He faces a hearing before a Special Executive Magistrate on Saturday.
- The Cockroach Janta Party has held near-daily protests this month demanding Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar's resignation over a voter list revision that protesters allege favors Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party , which deleted more than 130 million names.
- Dipke had called Friday's protest to support two CJP leaders jailed for five days for violating a ban. Student activist Neha Bora was also detained Friday while attempting to reach central Delhi and released Saturday.
- Earlier this year, the movement forced Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan's resignation following a weeks-long sit-in over exam paper leaks, demonstrating the CJP's capacity to extract major concessions from government.
- While The Election Commission denied favoring any party and said deleted voters can re-enroll, The BJP accused rivals of attempting to undermine democracy by questioning legitimate electoral processes.
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The leader of the "Cucarachas Party" (CJP) was released again after a day of detention, in the context of the October 16 protest in New Delhi. Abhijeet Dipke was placed in custody for the second time this week as he headed for the demonstrations that his own movement had called for. Neha Bora, a student activist, was also arrested and released.
The leader of the Indian student movement of the "baratas" was released on Saturday (17), after being arrested on the eve of a demonstration in New Delhi against the revision of the electoral records, as his party considers favorable to the Hindu nationalist Prime Minister, Narendra Modi. The GLOBO in the World: receive the international news in its WhatsApp Want to leave Brazil? Complete immigration guide gathers information about 36 countries …
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The Independent (US)Founder of India’s ‘cockroach’ movement arrested over national flag protest
Abhijeet Dipke’s party says he and other senior figures ‘will go down in history as the first people after 1947 to be jailed for unfurling India’s national flag’
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