Several opposition MPs were arrested by Delhi police when they attempted to march and demand the resignation of the chief election commissioner due to a contentious change to the voter roll. Rahul Gandhi, the main opposition leader, his sister Priyanka, and other Members of Parliament were compelled to board a police bus. After being freed soon after, they started a sit-in close to the Election Commission headquarters and continued their march. It is the most recent development in an expanding dispute over a national voter roll change.
Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar has been accused by opposition parties of supervising a procedure that could help Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Both the BJP and the Election Commission have denied this accusation. “Some of the MPs tried to take some other roads to the Election Commission building.” Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police Manjeet Sheoran told the BBC, “We have officers stationed at multiple points, from where the protesters were picked up in buses and taken to different police stations.” The number of MPs held was not disclosed by the police. 237 MPs from various parties took part in the march, according to the opposition.
Only four days had passed since the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), an online satirical organization supported by Generation Z, held protests in Delhi and Mumbai and called for the resignation of the CEC. The group has called for more protests on October 10 and has referred to those demonstrations as the start of a national campaign. The Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls is at the heart of the dispute.
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