India's Cockroach Janta Party says thousands detained during New Delhi protest against CEC
Indian police detained the head of the Cockroach Janta Party , as well as thousands of protesters trying to take part in a major demonstration in New Delhi against the country’s election commissioner, the group said on Saturday. The protest is the culmination of weeks of opposition mobilisation following allegations of misconduct during a nationwide voter-roll revision by the Election Commission…
The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) reported that approximately 15,000 protesters were detained in New Delhi during a protest against the Election Commission of India (ECI)'s Chief Election Commissioner (CEC). The group, led by Abhijeet Dipke, claimed that the detainees were denied access to their lawyers and cut off from communication with others.
The protest aimed to protest the ECI's alleged voter-list revision, which could disenfranchise millions of voters and benefit Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Authorities had deployed thousands of police, closed metro stations, cancelled trains, and shut down mobile internet ahead of the protest.
CJP leaders denounced the "lockdown-like restrictions" and called for the ECI chief and the ECI's actions to be halted.
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