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India detains protesters, locks down Delhi ahead of rally against election chief
NEW DELHI: Police in the Indian capital detained scores of protesters on Saturday amid patrols by thousands of security forces, with travel and telecoms links suspended, in a lockdown to stop a youth protest asking the election chief to quit. The protest by the “Cockroach” youth movement, aims to draw thousands of demonstrators against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over a revision of voter lists that critics say favours Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party. Television images showed police in the central business district of New Delhi chasing down a few dozen young ...
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