By Saturday mid-morning, the roads around Jantar Mantar, the capital’s traditional protest ground, were a maze of barricades, buses and uniforms. The rally was meant to be loud. The state’s answer was to leave nothing for it to stand on. The protest, called by India’s youth-led Cockroach Janata Party (CJP), demanded Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh […]
Maharashtra’s voter list has shrunk by a staggering margin under the Special Intensive Revision, and what started as a numbers story has now folded into something much bigger politically as the Thackeray brothers demand a rollback. Figures from the Office of the Chief Electoral Officer show the state’s draft roll dropping from 9,78,54,049 voters before […]
The national and financial capital of India saw strict security measures as the Cockroach Janta Party, along with others, began protests demanding the resignation of Gyanesh Kumar despite Delhi and Mumbai police refusing permission here on Friday. At the end of the day, at least 700 individuals were arrested in the protests in Delhi alone. […]
What began as a legal tussle over India’s electoral roll revision process has become a full-blown political and street confrontation, set to erupt in nationwide protests starting October 2. The current phase of the controversy began with a report by The Indian Express that says there is major dissent within the poll panel over decisions […]
