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Indian police detain 'cockroach' movement leaders demanding election chief's resignation
NEW DELHI: Top leaders of India’s “cockroach” youth movement were detained on Tuesday after they jumped barricades to enter the grounds of a historic observatory popular for protests, chanting slogans demanding the chief election commissioner’s resignation over a controversial revision of voter lists. Supporters of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) and opposition groups have held almost daily protests this month to demand commissioner Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation over the revisions critics say favour Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The Election Commission has denie...
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