Opposition leaders, student activists and journalists were detained as police launched a sweeping crackdown to thwart protests against India’s election chief in the capital Delhi on Saturday.
Arvind Kejriwal, Mamata Banerjee and Pinarayi Vijayan, former chief ministers of Delhi, West Bengal and Kerala states, respectively, were held alongside Abhijeet Dipke, Ashutosh Ranka and Saurav Das, leaders of the youth-led Cockroach Janta Party. Student leader Neha Bora, communist leader Brinda Karat, and economist and activist Jean Drèze were also among the demonstrators taken into custody.
