CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke detained at airport, as police patrol capital amid growing demands chief election officer resigns Police in New Delhi detained scores of protesters on Saturday – including Cockroach Janta party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipkeas – as thousands of officers and paramilitaries patrolled India’s capital to guard against a youth protest demanding India’s chief election officer quit. The protesters, led by the “Cockroach” youth movement, want the chief election commissioner, Gyanesh Kumar, to quit over a revision of voter lists that critics say favours prime minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata party. Metro stations were shut and mobile internet suspended in Delhi ahead of the arrival of protesters. Continue reading...
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