Security stepped up in India's capital for 'cockroach' movement rally
Police deployed more than 6,000 personnel and 220 CAPF companies as the CJP planned a flag march to demand its jailed leaders’ release.
- On Friday, Cockroach Janta Party founder Abhijeet Dipke called for a 'Lehra Do Tiranga' march at Central Park, Connaught Place, protesting the jailing of party leaders Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka.
- Das and Ranka were sent to five-day judicial custody for trespassing at Jantar Mantar after authorities denotified it as a protest site, escalating the CJP's nationwide campaign demanding Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar's resignation over electoral roll revisions.
- Authorities shuttered Central Park for two days citing 'administrative reasons,' while Delhi Police imposed prohibitory orders and deployed thousands of personnel; the Supreme Court refused an urgent hearing Friday on the protest ban.
- Police pre-emptively detained Dipke on Friday morning before he could leave for the protest, subsequently taking dozens of supporters into custody across the capital to enforce the ban on gatherings at Connaught Place.
- Security agencies requested deployment of 273 companies of Central Armed Police Forces until October 20, signaling sustained tensions as the CJP movement challenges electoral roll revisions that critics claim disenfranchised more than 130 million citizens.
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India detains top 'cockroach' leader as hundreds protest in capital
Dipke, 31, was detained shortly before a rally called by the online movement in the heart of New Delhi where hundreds of protesters marched on Friday evening, despite heavy security measures. The CJP founder had urged supporters to gather in the capital's busy commercial hub of Connaught Place with Indian flags in a show of solidarity after two of his colleagues were detained this week for breaching security barricades at Jantar Mantar, a prote…
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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