Delhi police are investigating sexual harassment allegations made by three female journalists against officers during protests over the weekend. The protests, initiated on Friday and continuing into Sunday, target Election Commission chief Gyanesh Kumar, demanding his resignation amid claims of voter roll revision malpractice. Activists like Neha Bora are calling for increased safety measures and condemning police detentions at protest sites in New Delhi and Mumbai.
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Youth-led protests, spearheaded by the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), have been ongoing for three days in Delhi and Mumbai, demanding the resignation of Gyanesh Kumar, chief election commissioner. Protesters accuse Kumar of overseeing unfair voter roll revisions that removed tens of millions of eligible voters, claiming it benefits the ruling BJP under Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Election Commission of India (ECI) maintains these changes are necessary to remove duplicate and ineligible entries.
Critics say the revision process is an assault on democracy. On Saturday, three female journalists alleged they faced sexual harassment from police officers during protests in Delhi, prompting an investigation by the Delhi Police. Over 130 million names have been removed from voter lists since the revisions began. Opposition leaders like Rahul Gandhi and Raj Thackeray support the protests, with more rallies planned for Sunday.
The CJP emerged as a satirical online movement earlier this year and succeeded in getting an education minister to resign over corruption allegations; now it seeks to challenge the ECI’s actions.
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In short:
Delhi police say three female journalists have made sexual harassment allegations against officers during protests against India's electoral commission.
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The alleged incidents happened on Saturday, and protests have continued into Sunday.
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The protesters include members of the Cockroach Janta Party, who have mounted a student-led protest movement against the Modi government.
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Indian police have launched an investigation into allegations of sexual harassment against officers during protests in the capital against the country's election commission.
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Protests began on Friday demanding the Election Commission of India (ECI) chief Gyanesh Kumar step down, alleging wrongdoing during a large-scale voter-roll revision that has struck millions of names from the lists.
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The ECI has rejected allegations of wrongdoing.
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Mr Kumar himself has not commented.
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The harassment allegations were made on Saturday, local time, when police detained scores of protesters around the government-designated protest site of Jantar Mantar in New Delhi.
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"Allegations of sexual harassment were made by three female journalists against police officers," Delhi police said in a statement.
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The agency promised "a fair and impartial enquiry" into the allegations.
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In a video posted on social media, a complainant said a police officer pushed and touched her "inappropriately".
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A third day of protests is slated in the capital on Sunday, including by left-wing groups and supporters of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), which began in May as a satirical online movement, succeeding in its campaign to oust the then-education minister.
CJP chief Abhijeet Dipke, who warned against a police crackdown and detentions on Saturday, said that the accused officer "must be arrested immediately".
Neha Bora, an activist from a left-wing student organisation, called for protesters to march to New Delhi's central India Gate.
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"From Streets to Protests, Women Are NOT SAFE!," she said in a post on social media.
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Meanwhile, the protests in the national capital and Mumbai have escalated with thousands of young protesters and opposition parties taking to the streets.
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Protesters allege voter disenfranchisement
Thousands of young protesters and opposition parties staged protests in the national capital and Mumbai on Sunday, demanding the resignation of Election Commission chief Gyanesh Kumar, as police detained demonstrators for a third consecutive day.
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Opposition leaders Raj Thackeray and Uddhav Thackeray led protests in Mumbai calling for the scrapping of revisions to the electoral roll and for Mr Kumar's resignation.
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In Delhi, protesters started gathering in the early evening and police started detaining some of them, according to a Reuters witness.
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Many demonstrators were later released, though police registered cases against some for allegedly violating orders banning mass gatherings in the capital.
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The protesters say a nationwide voter roll revision exercise launched last year has disenfranchised millions of eligible voters by removing them from electoral rolls.
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They allege the changes benefit Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party.
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The Election Commission and the BJP deny the allegations.
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"I just want to tell the ruling party this much …
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We are angry about how you are wielding that power.
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It's the people of this country who should decide who sits in power and who sits in opposition, not the Election Commission," Raj Thackeray said.
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The protests are likely to intensify over the next few days as an alliance of India's opposition parties plans to launch protests to "save democracy" with a march to the Election Commission office on Monday.
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The gen Z Cockroach Janta Party has announced plans for a major rally in Delhi on October 10.
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The demonstrations represent the latest in a series of youth-led challenges to Mr Modi's government — unprecedented in his 12 years in power.
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In July, student protests forced the ouster of the federal education minister following a leak of question papers for a national medical college entrance examination, marking the worst political crisis of Mr Modi's third term in office.
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