Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan to raise a voice against alleged irregularities in the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision on Sunday. Police gave permission for a rally between 10am and 5pm, provided there were no acts of violence or inflammatory speeches. The demonstration includes the Indian National Congress, Trinamool Congress, Samajwadi Party, Rashtriya Janata Dal, and other […]
New Delhi: Ramlila Maidan, one of the largest venues to host political rallies in India, witnessed the INDIA opposition bloc holding a “Vote Bachao, Desh Bachao” rally on Sunday as a show of force against the Election Commission of India. The controversy over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) saw multiple leaders accuse the Election Commission […]
MUMBAI: Actor Imran Khan has asked the Foreigners Regional Registration Office to share the material it relied on to propose cancelling his Overseas Citizen of India registration in a reply submitted on Thursday. Khan called the grounds in the notice “nebulous and contradictory.” He filed the reply two days after the Centre assured the Bombay […]
Italy’s youth are angry about what they can afford today and what they expect tomorrow. Students marched in Rome, Milan, Bologna, Turin, Genoa, Pisa and Naples on 16 October under the banner “No Meloni Day.” Demonstrators cite rising living costs, low wages, high rents and failing public services. Many young Italians say they no longer […]
France’s education and cost-of-living protests have escalated into nationwide unrest, with curfews, more than 2,400 arrests, and violence now spilling beyond its borders. French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu stated, “We have a mess on our hands, to put it bluntly.” French officials have imposed curfews after more than 2,400 people were arrested, along with other […]
Hundreds gathered at the Mahatma Gandhi statue in Parliament Square on Saturday to protest against Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar and the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of India’s electoral rolls. According to reports, a smaller group of government supporters held a counter-protest nearby. The protest was organised by the Indian Overseas Congress Youth wing […]
Several film personalities, including Vijay Varma, Huma Qureshi, Imran Khan and Zayn Marie, have publicly backed the nationwide protests demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar and a rollback of the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls. Imran Khan, with his cousin Zayn Marie, joined a protest and were detained by police […]
A security lockdown aimed at protesters has affected daily commuters as the agitation on 10 October stretched into a fourth day of disruption in New Delhi. Police and paramilitary forces locked down much of the north city around 57 metro stations and 240 trains to New Delhi and Nizamuddin stations were cancelled. Mobile internet was […]
Gen Z filled the streets of France, Chile, India and Spain in recent weeks, and their complaints sound alike: they can’t afford the present and don’t trust anyone to fix it. Students lead the movements in France, Chile and India, while Spain’s protests, driven largely by renters, centre on housing. France’s movement started small when […]
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 […]
Delhi woke up on Saturday to a capital closed off to its own protesters, with railways cancelling all trains to and from New Delhi and Hazrat Nizamuddin railway station between 4 am and 2 pm, ahead of the Cockroach Janta Party’s planned protest. “It is a fact that all trains will remain cancelled from New […]
The Opposition leader, Rahul Gandhi, and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra were detained after the protest over allegations of vote chori during the Special Intensive Revision exercise here on October 7 in central Delhi. The opposition demands Chief Election Commissioner (CEC), Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation alleging vote chori this agitation against the SIR is part of the opposition’s […]
Mumbai’s Shivaji Park witnessed an exciting turn of events on October 2 as some of Bollywood’s big names supported the Cockroach Janta Party protest against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah and Vishal Dadlani were spotted at the event. Despite the scorching heat and a stern reminder from the police, the young […]
Delhi has seen this week how quickly a protest against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar can turn tense. On Saturday, October 10, two separate calls to march on Jantar Mantar will test how the capital handles dissent. First, the Cockroach Janta Party’s (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke announced the Delhi march after thousands gathered at Mumbai’s […]
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 […]
