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India detains ‘cockroach’ founder, student leaders

Global Published 17 October 2026, 06:20 · archived 17 Oct 2026

NEW DELHI: Police detained India’s ‘cockroach’ movement founder Abhijeet Dipke, student leaders and supporters on Friday as hundreds poured into central Delhi, waving the national flag and demanding the resignation of India’s election chief. The youth-led Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), opposition groups and student organisations have held near-daily protests this month demanding Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation over a revision of voter lists they say favours Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). More than 130 million voters were deleted during the re...

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