What to Know About the Delhi Protests
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Protesters opposed to sweeping revisions to India’s voter rolls are trying to rally in New Delhi. The police have come out in force.
Listen · 4:44 min Share full article The police in New Delhi have installed barriers in the city center, part of an effort to limit protests against a revision in the country’s voter rolls. Credit... Bhawika Chhabra/Reuters By Somini Sengupta and Pragati K.B.
A large number of officers gathered and erected tall yellow barricades around the protest site. Several protesters have already been placed under house arrest. Delhi-bound trains have been canceled. Officials ordered the closure of 45 metro stations.
The protests were called by a Gen Z movement known as the Cockroach Janta Party. The demonstrations follow a week of daily protests by opposition politicians and several activist groups who are expected to defy a police ban and join Saturday’s rally.
The group said in a statement that three of its main leaders, including the founder, Abhijeet Dipke, were detained by the police on Saturday morning when their plane landed in New Delhi. The C.J.P. also shared a video that Mehr Parsicha, a spokeswoman for the youth group, recorded of the police detaining her.
Here’s what to know about the events in New Delhi, the capital of the world’s most populous democracy.
The protests stem from growing anger at a sweeping revision of the voter roll. The change, known as the Special Intensive Revision, began last summer as an effort to verify voter eligibility and remove duplicate or ineligible names. The government called it a long overdue push to clean up voter records.
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