{
  "id": 13504179,
  "title": "'Cowardly Act': Supriya Sule, Sanjay Raut, Aaditya Thackeray Slam Centre Over Anti-CEC Protest Crackdown",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/10/cowardly-act-supriya-sule-sanjay-raut-aaditya-thackeray-slam-centre",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-10T18:53:46.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/mumbai/cowardly-act-supriya-sule-sanjay-raut-aaditya-thackeray-slam-centre-over-anti-cec-protest-crackdown"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Supriya Sule, Sanjay Raut, Aaditya Thackeray, and other opposition leaders in Maharashtra have harshly criticized the central government's crackdown on protesters involved in an anti-Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) demonstration. They accused the Narendra Modi-led government of attempting to suppress the protests in both Delhi and Mumbai. The capital was turned into a \"fortress\" on Saturday as police made mass arrests, detaining CJP leader Abhijeet Dipke, YouTuber Dhruv Rathee, and nearly 500 others. Abhijeet's grandmother has passed away, yet he hasn't been allowed to speak with her or contact his family. Abhijeet, along with two other CJP leaders, Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka, were taken from an aircraft upon landing in Delhi. The CJP has called for a protest against the CEC due to claims of voter-list tampering during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls and changes to Form 6 for voter registration.",
  "summary": "Mumbai : Opposition leaders in Maharashtra on Saturday slammed the Centre over the detention of protesters during an agitation against Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar in Delhi, calling the action \"cowardly\". NCP (SP) MP Supriya Sule, Shiv Sena (UBT) leaders Sanjay Raut and Aaditya Thackeray, and Congress' Nana Patole accused the Narendra Modi-led government of trying to crush the…",
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}