Security stepped up in India's capital for 'cockroach' movement rally
Police detained the CJP founder after serving a ban notice, as officials deployed about 25,000 personnel and warned of traffic disruption around Connaught Place.
- On Friday, Delhi Police detained Cockroach Janta Party founder Abhijeet Dipke ahead of his planned 'Lehra Do Tiranga' march at Central Park in Connaught Place. Authorities had deployed 220 companies of Central Armed Police Forces and closed the venue to restrict the demonstration.
- Dipke organized the march to demand the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over alleged voter-roll irregularities. The protest also sought to highlight the five-day judicial remand of senior CJP leaders Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka.
- Deployment of 220 companies of Central Armed Police Forces across Delhi enforced Section 163 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita in Connaught Place and surrounding areas. The New Delhi Municipal Council simultaneously closed Central Park for two days citing 'administrative reasons'.
- Officers served Dipke a notice barring the protest before taking him into preventive detention near his residence. Police offered to allow a 'select group' to wave the national flag at a suitable location, though CJP supporters rejected the conditional arrangement.
- The confrontation reflects broader friction over the Election Commission's voter-roll revision, which critics claim disenfranchised more than 130 million voters. The CJP and allied student groups vow to continue their campaign against the alleged targeting of minorities despite the security crackdown.
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The mobilization of Indian youth is growing as the opposition and the Cafard People's Party denounce a revision of the electoral lists, considered discriminatory by many demonstrators.
Indian police detain ‘cockroach’ movement leader ahead of New Delhi protest
Police detained India’s ‘cockroach’ movement founder Abhijeet Dipke on Friday, live images from his group showed, ahead of a protest called by him in capital New Delhi’s central business district, the latest rally to demand the resignation of India’s election chief. The youth-led ‘Cockroach Janta Party’ (CJP), opposition groups and student organisations have held almost daily protests this month demanding Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kum…
Abhijeet Dipke stopped in New Delhi as he left his home to go to a demonstration he called against the revision of the electoral lists
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