Police detained scores of protesters and their leaders in the Indian capital today amid patrols by thousands of security forces, with travel and telecoms links suspended, in A lockdown to stop the protest asking the election chief to quit. #
Mamata Banerjee and Arvind Kejriwal were detained during A protest demanding the removal of India’s chief election commissioner. Photo: Collected
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- Mamata Banerjee and Arvind Kejriwal were detained during Delhi protests.
- Opposition leaders demanded the removal of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.
- Protesters accused electoral roll revisions of favouring Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s BJP.
- Police detained demonstrators and imposed tight security restrictions across Delhi.
- Opposition parties alleged voter deletions undermined electoral fairness and democracy.
- Protesters demanded accountability from the Election Commission over alleged electoral irregularities.
Indian opposition leaders and activists, including Arvind Kejriwal, Mamata Banerjee, Pinarayi Vijayan, Neha Bora, Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan, are among those detained in New Delhi today (10 October) during protests against the country’s Election Commission.
The Delhi Police detained former West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, along with party colleague Dola Sen, as she was sitting on A “dharna”, A way of showing one’s disagreement with something by refusing to leave A place, against Indian Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar on the road near the South Avenue bus stand in the Indian national capital, reports Hindustan Times.
