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On Wednesday, Indian police detained opposition leader Rahul Gandhi and other lawmakers for a third consecutive day as they protested outside Jantar Mantar in central Delhi against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over disputed voter list revisions. The protests began after lunch meetings organized by the Congress party and included hundreds of supporters carrying posters demanding electoral transparency and accusing Kumar of bias towards Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
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Opposition leader Rahul Gandhi and several lawmakers were detained by Indian police for a third time in two days on Wednesday. They protested against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, demanding his resignation over controversial revisions to voter lists reported by The Indian Express newspaper last month. Opposition parties, including the Congress party, have been staging nearly daily demonstrations since then. On Tuesday, Gandhi led lawmakers seeking a meeting with Kumar and were detained when police broke up their gathering. Wednesday’s protest started after a lunch meeting at a restaurant near Jantar Mantar, Delhi's designated demonstration site. Demonstrations are seen as a new political challenge to Prime Minister Modi midway through his third term, following similar protests that forced the resignation of an education minister over exam paper leaks earlier this year. The election commission and BJP have denied accusations of wrongdoing related to voter list revisions.
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Indian police detained opposition leader Rahul Gandhi and several lawmakers for the third time in two days on Wednesday as they launched an unannounced protest demanding the resignation of the election chief over a controversial revision of voter lists.
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Opposition parties, their student units, and the “cockroach” youth movement have been staging almost daily demonstrations seeking Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation, after the Indian Express newspaper last month reported disagreements within the poll panel over updating voter lists, stoking concerns over its neutrality.
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Opposition lawmakers led by Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi protested on Tuesday as well, seeking a meeting with Kumar and his deputies, before police broke up their gathering and briefly detained them.
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Wednesday’s protest began after a lunch meeting of lawmakers that Congress organised at a restaurant in central Delhi, close to the Jantar Mantar site where authorities permit demonstrations.
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“Yesterday … Delhi Police stopped us and said you cannot protest here … so today … we will go to the designated protest site, sit there, and tell the country that, for us, Gyanesh Kumar is not the legitimate commissioner
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,” Gandhi told reporters, referring to Jantar Mantar.
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“The people who have done this (vote theft) are traitors …
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Gyanesh Kumar will have to resign,” he said, before boarding a bus that was to take the lawmakers to Jantar Mantar.
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New political challenge to Modi
Lawmakers in the bus held posters against the windows that said, “no vote theft, no democracy theft”, and “election commission, not BJP commission”, referring to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party.
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Hundreds of Congress members accompanied the bus on foot amid heavy deployment of police and paramilitary personnel in riot gear.
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Police also closed the road leading to Jantar Mantar, forcing the bus to take a detour.
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Gandhi later stepped out of the bus, with a live feed on his party’s YouTube channel showing him standing at the centre of a crowd of protesters and security personnel, while his sister Priyanka Vadra and other lawmakers sprawled out on the road.
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Visuals showed security personnel hauling Gandhi and Vadra into separate vehicles and taking them away.
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The demonstrations present a new political challenge to Modi midway into his third term, just months after similar protests led by the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) youth movement forced the resignation of his education minister over exam paper leaks.
Kumar has not commented on the voter lists issue but the election commission and BJP have denied accusations of wrongdoing.
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