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Leaders of India’s youth-led “Cockroach” movement were arrested early Wednesday, the first such move by authorities since protests erupted, in an escalation of tensions over a contentious overhaul of the country’s voter rolls.
Leaders of India’s “cockroach” protest movement were detained again on Tuesday, their second detention in days, as a stand-off with authorities deepened over a contentious overhaul of voter rolls. Ashutosh Ranka and Saurav Das, two prominent faces of the youth-led Cockroach Janta Party, were taken into custody with other members after jumping barricades to enter Jantar Mantar, historically one of New Delhi’s main protest venues. Delhi police on Monday removed Jantar Mantar’s designation as a...
Unlike previous SIRs, which had elaborate processes for preparing fresh rolls to ensure that no eligible elector would be taken off the rolls, the current SIR exercise adopts a flawed process that has led to the exclusion of lakhs of eligible voters; a point-by-point comparison is provided
Parts of India’s New Delhi remained under lockdown on a second straight day as the Cockroach Janta Party pressed ahead with its call for protests despite tight security, demanding the resignation of India’s top election official over a contentious revision of voter rolls.
New Delhi woke to a tense Saturday as thousands of police and paramilitary personnel were deployed across the capital ahead of a demonstration by the Cockroach Janta Party over a contentious revision of India’s voter rolls.
Thousands of youth protesters and opposition supporters rallied in Delhi and Mumbai on Sunday to demand the resignation of India's election commission chief over changes to voter rolls as police detained some demonstrators for a third day.
The allegations were made after police detained dozens of protesters demanding the resignation of the election chief over changes to voter rolls.
India’s opposition parties and the youth-led “cockroach” movement took to the streets on Friday, demanding action over alleged irregularities in voter rolls and calling for the resignation of the country’s chief election commissioner, as the combined pressure from the two groups poses a new challenge for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government. The protests have brought the opposition closer to the youth movement that it has sought to engage with, according to analysts. While their convergence...
Parakala Prabhakar speaks to us about the SIR exercise, the deletion of voter names, and what objections within the Election Commission reveal about the conduct of the process.
BLOs defended that 91% only reflects the coverage of the mapping exercise, not the success of mapping