CJP leaders released after Delhi protest crackdown
The founder of India's youth-led Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) Abhijeet Dipke and two other leaders were released on Sunday, a day after police detained them ahead of a planned protest demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. The leaders, including Ashutosh Ranka and Saurav Das, were released after being produced before an executive magistrate at Delhi Cantt Police…
India's youth-led political party, Cockroach Janata Party (CJP), experienced a series of arrests on Sunday following a planned protest. The detained leaders included CJP's founder Abhijeet Dipke and two others, Ashutosh Ranka and Saurav Das. They were apprehended by the Delhi Police ahead of the protest, which aimed to pressure Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar to resign.
The detentions occurred following weeks of protests concerning allegations of irregularities in a nationwide revision of voter lists. Thousands of protesters were detained in a major security operation across Delhi on Saturday to prevent a large-scale demonstration at Jantar Mantar, a designated gathering spot. The CJP, along with other opposition parties, denounced the arrests and vowed to continue their campaign against the voter-list revision, criticizing the government for suppressing dissent.
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