‘Cockroach’ party rally: young Indians return to streets as Delhi braces for large protest

Police and paramilitaries ⁠patrol the capital and internet suspended, amid demands chief election officer resigns Police in New Delhi detained scores of protesters on Saturday as ⁠thousands of officers and paramilitaries ⁠patrolled India’s capital, metro stations were shut and mobile internet suspended to guard against a youth protest demanding India’s chief election officer quit. The protest, called by the “Cockroach” youth movement, hopes to draw thousands of demonstrators ⁠who 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. Continue reading...