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India’s ‘Cockroach’ party accuses government of mass detention of members ahead of weekend protest

Protesters raise fists and placards demanding resignation of India's chief election commissioner
Protesters demanding the resignation of India's chief election commissioner over alleged voter-roll irregularities. The Cockroach Janta party has in part led the protest movement. Photograph: Abhishek Chinnappa/Getty Images

India’s Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), which began as a satirical movement but is now emerging as a political force among gen Z’s, says authorities have begun detaining its members en masse days before a major anti-government protest in Delhi.

Opposition parties, their student units, and the “Cockroach” youth movement have been holding almost daily demonstrations seeking the resignation of chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over a controversial revision of ⁠voter lists.

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