{"id":7810,"date":"2026-10-10T04:36:33","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T04:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=7810"},"modified":"2026-10-10T04:36:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T04:36:33","slug":"india-deploys-police-and-restricts-transport-ahead-of-mass-protest-in-delhi-civil-rights-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=7810","title":{"rendered":"India deploys police and restricts transport ahead of mass protest in Delhi | Civil Rights News"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Cockroach Janta Party wants Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar to quit over changes to voter lists.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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India has deployed thousands of police and paramilitary personnel in central Delhi and restricted transport in and around the capital ahead of a youth-led protest demanding the resignation of Gyanesh Kumar, the country\u2019s chief election commissioner.<\/p>\n

Saturday\u2019s rally, called by the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), a youth-based political movement, is expected to be the biggest yet in a wave of near-daily protests over a revision of voter lists that critics say favours Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).<\/p>\n

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Organisers have billed it as a protest to \u201cSave Democracy\u201d.<\/p>\n

Shutdown of central Delhi<\/h2>\n

Police have not authorised a rally at Jantar Mantar in central Delhi, which authorities usually designate for protests, because they said the request was not made on time and that the CJP had violated undertakings given during earlier protests<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Police have also warned that protesters will face a forceful law enforcement response if they violate the ban.<\/p>\n

Roads to the site are blocked with multiple layers of metal barricades, as authorities shut 57 metro stations from Friday night, cancelled several long-distance trains and suspended mobile internet within 4km (2.5 miles) of the protest area until Saturday night, the Indian news agency ANI reported.<\/p>\n

India\u2019s Supreme Court said on Friday that some trains must still run and that blanket closure of metro stations is unlikely.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe dictator would rather shut down the entire national capital and inconvenience millions of citizens than allow a peaceful protest at a designated protest site,\u201d CJP chief Abhijeet Dipke said on X.<\/p>\n

The CJP says at least 10,000 people, including protesters travelling to Delhi by train, have been detained<\/a> across the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can detain the people, you cannot detain the movement,\u201d said Neha Bora, national president of the All India Students\u2019 Association, who has emerged as a leading face of the protests.<\/p>\n

What kicked off the protests<\/h2>\n

Protesters want Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar to quit over a voter list revision that has removed more than 130 million names.<\/p>\n

The Election Commission says the exercise removes duplicate and ineligible voters and aims to prevent \u201cforeign illegal immigrants\u201d from voting.<\/p>\n

Critics say it has disproportionately affected marginalised and minority communities<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The protests escalated after the Indian Express reported that Kumar\u2019s two deputies had formally raised concerns at least 14 times in the past 10 months over the revisions.<\/p>\n

The Election Commission and the BJP have denied the allegations. The BJP says the opposition is misleading the country because it cannot win elections.<\/p>\n

The CJP began online as political satire in May after Chief Justice Surya Kant called unemployed youth \u201ccockroaches\u201d, sparking nationwide outrage. Since then, the CJP has garnered a large following among India\u2019s youth.<\/p>\n

The July protests led Modi\u2019s education minister to resign over exam paper leaks. The latest demonstrations come months before a series of state elections in early 2027, including in Uttar Pradesh, India\u2019s most populous state, which the BJP governs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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