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We are closing that space.\"\n\nPriyanka Gandhi Vadra, Rahul Gandhi's sister and a Congress MP, wrote in a social media post: \"India is not a democracy anymore. It is a dictatorship being run by Mr. Narendra Modi and Mr. Amit Shah.\"\n\nOpposition parties and critics have warned that the electoral-roll revision exercise\u00a0could strip millions of people of their voting rights and give an advantage to Prime Minister Modi's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).\n\nThe Election Commission of India has rejected allegations of wrongdoing, saying the \"special intensive revision\"\u00a0aims to remove duplicate and ineligible voters.\n\nThe protests echo the CJP's mass mobilization in July, which forced the then education minister to resign over an examination scandal.\n\nThis time, demonstrators are demanding the resignation of election chief Gyanesh Kumar.Indian opposition leaders say the voter-roll revision could disenfranchise millions and benefit Modi\u2019s ruling BJPImage: Ajit Solanki/AP Photo/picture alliance\nhttps://p.dw.com/p/5O6uWSkip next section Police crackdown amid outrage over India voter list revisionOctober 10, 2026Police crackdown amid outrage over India voter list revisionTens of thousands of security personnel have been deployed and roads barricaded across New Delhi to prevent the latest Cockroach Janta Party (CJP)\u00a0demonstration.\n\n\n\nPolice have detained thousands of protesters in a major crackdown.\u00a0Cockroach Janta Party founder Abhijeet Dipke and two other leaders were detained before disembarking from a flight in the capital.\n\nSome protesters who turned back from Jantar Mantar, the designated protest site, have been waiting in different parts of central Delhi, determined to hold their ground.\n\nThe CJP has urged people who believe they or someone they know has been unlawfully detained to fill out an online form as soon as possible, saying it is collecting information to support affected volunteers and other individuals.\n\n\nThe protest targeted Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over voter list revisions that critics say favor Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling BJP.\nhttps://p.dw.com/p/5O6pwSkip next section READ: Why are India's 'cockroaches' protesting again?October 10, 2026READ: Why are India's 'cockroaches' protesting again?Police have managed to clear away protesters from the designated protest site in DelhiImage: Midhat Fatimah/DWIf you're joining us now, here's a helpful reminder about why India's youth are rising up this time.\n\nRead DW's report here.\nhttps://p.dw.com/p/5O6lSSkip next section 'We've been playing a game of cat and mouse with police,' protester tells DWOctober 10, 2026'We've been playing a game of cat and mouse with police,' protester tells DWDW Hindi's Adarsh Sharma, who is on the ground in New Delhi, spoke to protesters as they faced a security crackdown.\n\nHe caught up with one protester who managed to avoid detention.\n\n\"We were running back and forth. When the police are moving forward, we go back. When they are withdrawing, we are moving forward,\" the protester told DW.\u00a0\n\nThe protester described the heavy police presence as a \"game of perception.\"\n\n\"Where you have 20 protesters and 10 media persons, there are 100 police personnel standing. It seems like a joke, what they are doing with taxpayers' money,\" the protester said.\n\nAnother protester, Jasmine, described how the morning unfolded for the demonstrators.\u00a0\n\n\"We have been playing a game of cat and mouse with the police, trying to stop them from picking us up,\"\u00a0she said.\u00a0\n\n\"I don't think we have ever seen something like this happening. Protesting is a fundamental right\u2026 it's such a convoluted idea to take permission to protest\u2026 you are protesting against a government, will you ask permission from the same government? They are not going to give it,\" she said.\nhttps://p.dw.com/p/5O6lASkip next section CJP's new protest leader asks supporters to keep up the fight\nOctober 10, 2026CJP's new protest leader asks supporters to keep up the fight\nAjinkya Shinde, who was handed the responsibility\u00a0of leading the Cockroach Janta Party's protest following the detentions of its main leaders, has made his first statement \u2014 calling for a continued march to Jantar Mantar.\u00a0\n\n\"We appeal to everyone to march towards Jantar Mantar! If Delhi Police tries to stop you, wherever they stop you will become your Jantar Mantar,\"\u00a0he said in a video post made by the CJP on X.\u00a0\n\n\nhttps://p.dw.com/p/5O6iiSkip next section Indian media houses say their journalists were briefly detained during Delhi protestsOctober 10, 2026Indian media houses say their journalists were briefly detained during Delhi protestsIndian media outlets, including Scroll and Newslaundry, reported that their journalists had been detained by police while covering the 'Cockroach' party protest. The journalists were later released.\n\nNewslaundry reported that police seized its reporters\u2019 phones, while other reports said journalists were physically assaulted.\n\n\n\nThe Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), an independent nonprofit organization that promotes press freedom and defends journalists'\u00a0rights worldwide, has called on Delhi Police to immediately release all detained journalists and media workers.\n\n\n\nIt has also urged police to return their equipment, investigate reports of physical abuse, and allow the press to cover the ongoing protests in New Delhi and the police response without interference.\n\nIn the 2026 World Press Freedom Index published by Reporters Without Borders (RSF), India ranked 157th out of 180 countries, down six places from 2025. Press freedom groups have raised concerns about the use of criminal laws against journalists and the impact of such\u00a0measures on independent journalism.\nhttps://p.dw.com/p/5O6cVSkip next section CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke's grandmother has died \u2014 reports\n\nOctober 10, 2026CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke's grandmother has died \u2014 reports\n\nDetained Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke's grandmother is reported to have died on Saturday.\n\nIndian media reports said that Dipke's paternal\u00a0grandmother had been suffering from a prolonged illness and had been\u00a0unwell in recent days. She died in her native village in Maharashtra, reports said.\u00a0\n\nNews agency ANI, citing police sources, reported that the Delhi Police had informed Dipke of his grandmother's death. It was now up to the CJP leader to decide whether\u00a0to continue his protest while under detention or travel back for the funeral rites.\u00a0\n\nDipke was detained aboard his plane after it landed\u00a0in New Delhi on Saturday morning, ahead of the protest. He was traveling from Mumbai.\nhttps://p.dw.com/p/5O6bdSkip next section IN PICTURES: Dissent and detention October 10, 2026IN PICTURES: Dissent and detention https://p.dw.com/p/5O6ZrSkip next section CJP appoints interim protest leader to press on with rally\n\nOctober 10, 2026CJP appoints interim protest leader to press on with rally\n\nThe Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) has indicated that it will\u00a0press on with its protest despite its leaders and supporters being detained.\n\nCJP's National Organization In-Charge Ajinkya Shinde will lead the\u00a0protest at Jantar Mantar until Abhijeet Dipke, Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka remain in detention, the group said in a statement on X.\u00a0\n\nThe CJP also shared a video of Dipke purportedly recorded on Friday night, anticipating a potential detention.\n\n\"If you are seeing this video, it means Ashutosh, Saurav and I have been arrested,\" Dipke says in the video.\n\n\"After us, Ajinkya will lead this movement,\" he says.\u00a0\n\n\n\nIn a separate post, the CJP alleged that its three detained leaders had been taken to an undisclosed location, were being denied access to\u00a0lawyers and had been cut off from \"all contact with others.\"\n\u00a0\nhttps://p.dw.com/p/5O6OBSkip next section Supreme Court bar association calls for intervention after lawyers are detainedOctober 10, 2026Supreme Court bar association calls for intervention after lawyers are detainedThe formal association of advocates at\u00a0India's apex court called for urgent intervention by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant after several lawyers were detained by Delhi police.\n\nThis comes amid a reported\u00a0crackdown on protesters attempting to reach the national capital, specifically central Delhi,\u00a0to protest against India's chief election commissioner\u00a0over alleged misconduct.\n\nThe arrested lawyers include those protesting\u00a0outside the premises of the\u00a0Supreme Court of India,\u00a0as well as\u00a0lawyers inside their chambers, legal news website, Bar and Bench, reported.\u00a0\n\nThe Supreme Court Bar Association passed a resolution condemning the use of \"excessive force against, and detention of, senior and young advocates, particularly women advocates, who were peacefully protesting in the Supreme Court area today.\"\n\nThe advocates' body expressed \"grave concern\" and requested the CJI to take action to ensure that the\u00a0\"whereabouts and safety of every detained advocate are ascertained.\"\nhttps://p.dw.com/p/5O6OeSkip next section How have India's opposition politicians reacted to the Delhi protest crackdown? October 10, 2026How have India's opposition politicians reacted to the Delhi protest crackdown? Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has slammed the measures taken by Indian authorities to prevent the Cockroach Janta Party's protest from going ahead.\n\nHe called out a \"war-like deployment\" of security personnel and said that the suspension of the internet in a\u00a0key part of Delhi was among\u00a0the \"most regressive\" and\u00a0\"repressive\" measures.\n\n\"A government confident in the fairness of its elections would welcome questions about them, whereas one that turns its capital into a fortress to avoid them only deepens the very suspicions it seeks to suppress. The government should provide answers, not lathis (sticks); expression, not repression,\" Tharoor wrote on X.\n\n\n\nHe also called for the release of the protesters who had been detained.\n\nTharoor said India's Gen Z \"deserves better than an undeclared Emer-GenZ,\" in a play on words.\n\nLeaders of the CJP on Friday likened the clampdown on their planned protest to a \"state of emergency.\"\n\nA state of emergency\u00a0was declared in India by former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in the mid-70s. Emergency powers were invoked by the Congress leader for 21 months, during which civil liberties were suspended, much of the opposition was jailed and media was censored.\u00a0\n\nAam Aadmi Party (AAP) National Convenor and former Delhi chief minister\u00a0Arvind Kejriwal also mounted an emergency-related attack against Modi's government.\u00a0\n\n\"This is worse than the Emergency. It's official.. we are living under an absolute dictatorship ruled by Modi. Arresting cockroaches straight off their flight shows an unprecedented level of fear,\" he said, referring to the arrests of CJP's three main leaders.\n\n\nhttps://p.dw.com/p/5O6MUSkip next section Modi's party accuses opposition of attempts to 'incite tension' October 10, 2026Modi's party accuses opposition of attempts to 'incite tension' Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday accused opposition leaders including Rahul Gandhi and Arvind Kejriwal of \"attempting to incite tensions\" in the country.\n\n\"The Govt of India will deal strictly with the attempts you are making to incite tension, and BJP workers, remaining constantly among the people, will effectively thwart your designs,\" BJP President Nitin Nabin told news agencies on Saturday morning.\n\n\"Your repeated electoral defeats in various states and the resulting desperation suggest that, in some way, you do not wish to see this country move forward peacefully. However, I warn you today that the BJP and the patriotic citizens of this country will give you a fitting and stern response,\" he said.\u00a0\n\nNabin suggested that \"foreign forces\" were behind the opposition leaders and that the protests were an attempt to \"destabilize\" India. BJP leaders have made similar claims before without offering proof.\n\n\"I issue a clear warning to you today: the foreign forces upon which you rely for your politics up for sale\u2014and the alliances with such forces through which you seek to destabilize India\u2014will never allow your nefarious intentions to succeed,\" he said.\nhttps://p.dw.com/p/5O6EYSkip next section More detentions reported as protesters attempt to push through security blockade October 10, 2026More detentions reported as protesters attempt to push through security blockade Security personnel detain supporters of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) Image: Priyanshu Singh/REUTERSIt's past noon here and Indian news channels are playing visuals of protesters trying to reach central Delhi, despite the mass preventive detentions taking place.\u00a0\n\nSeveral groups of young people have been seen running through the streets, trying to dodge police personnel and barricades.\u00a0\n\nNews agency ANI reported, citing\u00a0police sources, that\u00a0200 more people were detained in the key\u00a0Connaught Place area as they tried to reach the Jantar Mantar protest site.\n\n\nhttps://p.dw.com/p/5O6FWSkip next section What to know if you're joining us nowOctober 10, 2026What to know if you're joining us nowHere's the situation right now:\n\n\n\tThe leaders of the Cockroach Janta Party, which called\u00a0Saturday's protest, have been detained\n\tPolice have reportedly\u00a0detained more than\u00a0500 people heading toward Jantar Mantar\u00a0in anticipation of demonstrations\n\tHeavy barricades have been erected across\u00a0central Delhi and along the\u00a0national capital's borders to prevent protesters from entering the city\n\n\nWith this, it is unclear at the moment whether the planned protest will be able to take place.\n\nBut the CJP isn't the only group protesting against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.\u00a0\n\nThe left-wing All India Students' Association (AISA) and its breakout star, Neha Bora,\u00a0have\u00a0been leading protests in the capital all week.\n\nAlso on the ground are\u00a0the Gandhi siblings, lawmakers Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi, who are leading the opposition alliance's protests against the poll body in New Delhi.\n\nRahul Gandhi is the leader of the opposition in the lower house of the Indian parliament and possibly Prime Minister Modi's\u00a0biggest challenger in the 2029 elections. 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