PARTY LISTS CITIES IT WILL TARGET THIS MONTH
Led by Abhijeet Dipke, the CJP – which adopted the name after India’s chief justice called unemployed youth and online activists “cockroaches” – gained national prominence after spearheading mass protests over exam-paper leaks; those protests led to the resignation of India’s education minister.
Pressure on Kumar intensified last month after the Indian Express newspaper reported the election chief’s two deputies had formally raised concerns at least 14 times over the past 10 months over voter-list revisions, registration procedures and the commission’s digital systems.
The Election Commission has said differing views are normal in internal deliberations.
Saurav Das, CJP’s spokesperson told Reuters, protests will continue until Kumar resigns.
“We will protest for few hours today. Apart from Mumbai, we will do Goa, Kolkata, Bangalore, this whole month,” he said.
However, in Delhi, a separate group of student protesters was not allowed to gather, with batches of them bundled into buses and taken away by the police. Several nearby metro stations remained shut and security was tightened.
Earlier in the day, as police pushed him onto a bus, protester Rishabh Singh said, “the right to protest is our fundamental right, and we want answers from the government on vote theft”.
