India's 'Cockroach' Protesters Are Back, This Time Asking Poll Chief to Resign
The youth-led group says 13 crore names were removed from draft rolls and plans protests nationwide through October.
- India's youth-led Cockroach Janata Party and allied student organizations launched fresh mass demonstrations across major cities, demanding the immediate resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.
- The protests stem from widespread allegations that a nationwide voter-verification drive deleted millions of eligible voters from electoral rolls while adding unverified registrations to favor Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party .
- CJP convenor Saurav Das declared that demonstrators would maintain street blockades until Kumar steps down, warning that public trust in the voting system has been severely compromised ahead of upcoming elections.
- The CJP, led by founder Abhijeet Dipke, has rapidly emerged as a dominant political force after previously leading student-led protests that forced the resignation of India's education minister over national exam paper leaks.
- In response to mounting pressure and planned opposition marches, the Election Commission instructed local officials to begin re-registering disenfranchised voters, though the poll body continues to deny allegations of deliberate partisan manipulation.
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The Messenger'Cockroach' protesters demand India's election chief resign over voter list changes
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India’s Modi faces dual pressure from ‘cockroach’ movement, opposition parties
India’s opposition parties and the youth-led “cockroach” movement took to the streets on Friday, demanding action over alleged irregularities in voter rolls and calling for the resignation of the country’s chief election commissioner, as the combined pressure from the two groups poses a new challenge for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government. The protests have brought the opposition closer to the youth movement that it has sought to engage w…
Hundreds of young people gathered in New Delhi on Friday to demand the resignation of the president of the Electoral Commission for alleged irregularities in the electoral roll, but they came across widespread police deployment. A journalistic investigation by the newspaper 'The Indian Express', published last month, denounced irregularities during a massive review of the electoral roll, which removed millions of names from the lists. The Electi…
Protesters accuse the commission of manipulating voter lists in favor of Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party.
CJP, student groups to protest, demand Election Commission chief's resignation
Prime Minister Narendra Modi faced renewed pressure on Friday as the Gen Z-led Cockroach Janta Party and a separate coalition of student and activist groups stage fresh protests, demanding the resignation of the elections commission chief over a controversial voter roll revision.
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