India Election Protests: Cockroach Janta Party Leaders Detained, Released in New Delhi as Voter Roll Revision Fuels Calls for Election Chief Gyanesh Kumar to Resign
NEW DELHI. Police detained the leaders of India’s youth-led “Cockroach” movement as they landed in the capital on Saturday, then freed them within hours as a court intervened, in the sharpest confrontation yet over a nationwide revision of voter lists. The dispute has pulled opposition parties, student groups and a fast-growing online movement into the … Read more