Two leaders of India’s Cockroach movement jailed for five days
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An Indian court has ordered Cockroach Janta Party leaders Ashutosh Ranka and Saurav Das jailed for five days after they crossed police barricades at Jantar Mantar, a longstanding protest site in central Delhi that authorities recently removed from the city’s list of designated demonstration venues.
Ranka and Das were among about a dozen people who entered the site on Tuesday, waved the Indian flag and chanted slogans demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. Their lawyer, Abhisht Hela, said they were jailed for violating an undertaking given to authorities after an earlier detention. Delhi Police cited alleged repeated violations and concerns that the two would again break the law or encourage others to do so.
A third CJP leader, Ajinkya Shinde, was released on a personal bond. Police have also accused the activists of trespassing, violating prohibitory orders and obstructing a public servant.
The action follows protests by the CJP, opposition parties and student organizations against revisions to India’s voter rolls. Critics allege the changes disproportionately remove voters unlikely to support Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party and have demanded Kumar’s resignation. The Election Commission denies favoring any party and says eligible voters wrongly removed from the rolls can re-enrol. The BJP has rejected allegations that the revisions were designed to benefit it.
CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke condemned the detentions, and the All India Students’ Association called for the leaders’ release.
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Two leaders of India’s Cockroach movement jailed for five days
An Indian court has ordered Cockroach Janta Party leaders Ashutosh Ranka and Saurav Das jailed for five days after they crossed police barricades at Jantar Mantar, a longstanding protest site in central Delhi that authorities recently removed from the city’s list of designated demonstration venues.
Ranka and Das were among about a dozen people who entered the site on Tuesday, waved the Indian flag and chanted slogans demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. Their lawyer, Abhisht Hela, said they were jailed for violating an undertaking given to authorities after an earlier detention. Delhi Police cited alleged repeated violations and concerns that the two would again break the law or encourage others to do so.
A third CJP leader, Ajinkya Shinde, was released on a personal bond. Police have also accused the activists of trespassing, violating prohibitory orders and obstructing a public servant.
The action follows protests by the CJP, opposition parties and student organizations against revisions to India’s voter rolls. Critics allege the changes disproportionately remove voters unlikely to support Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party and have demanded Kumar’s resignation. The Election Commission denies favoring any party and says eligible voters wrongly removed from the rolls can re-enrol. The BJP has rejected allegations that the revisions were designed to benefit it.
CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke condemned the detentions, and the All India Students’ Association condemned the detentions and called for the leaders’ release.
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