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Millions struck off India’s electoral rolls, the Cockroach Janta Party’s protests that followed, and the crackdown on them.
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One in six voters has been removed from the Indian state’s final roll, as protests grow against the chief election commissioner and the Supreme Court hears challenges to the nationwide revision.
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Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka, arrested for scaling barricades at Jantar Mantar, walked free vowing to keep up their campaign against India’s chief election commissioner.
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Kapil Mishra called the cockroach a symbol of “jihadism” and “traitors” at a Ramlila run by a BJP lawmaker, as the Cockroach Janta Party leads protests against the Election Commission. AAP has filed a complaint.
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India’s sweeping voter-roll revision asks citizens to trace themselves back to the 2002-03 lists. More than 133 million names have been cut, and critics say the poor, women and Muslims are paying the price.
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CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke accuses Narendra Modi of hiding behind police and courts, as two of his colleagues remain in judicial custody over a Jantar Mantar protest.
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Rahul Gandhi and nine other opposition leaders have taken India's Election Commission to the Supreme Court over more than 130 million vanished voters.
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Amnesty, Human Rights Watch and the UN have converged on the same verdict about India's mass detentions, a record that 'mother of democracy' rhetoric does not easily survive.
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Grandparents and students waved the same flag over the same grievance in central Delhi, a sign the Cockroach protests have outgrown their organisers.
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A campaign that began mocking the Election Commission with an insect's name just drew a national film star and millions of online followers to Freedom Park.
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Mobile data cut, journalists in judicial custody, a historic protest ground de-notified: Delhi's response to the SIR protests looks less like crowd control and more like attrition.
NEWSROOM
Protests are gathering pace across India, with the Cockroach Janta Party set to hold another demonstration at Delhi's Connaught Place on Friday after the Delhi High Court refused to restrain it.
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The UN, Amnesty and Human Rights Watch have criticised India over the mass detention of protesters, opposition leaders, lawyers and journalists in Delhi.
