Abhijeet Dipke, Saurav Das, and Ashutosh Ranka of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) were detained by Delhi Police after their flight from Mumbai landed in New Delhi. The leaders intended to hold a protest at Jantar Mantar against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar regarding alleged voter-list manipulation during the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls.
From inside the aircraft, Abhijeet Dipke recorded a video. In it, he said, "So, you can see that Delhi Police is entering the plane to arrest us. They are all entering the plane. We just landed. All the Delhi Police officers are standing in the aisle. They are trying to arrest us from inside the plane. The entire Delhi Police is getting on the plane...This is the fear of Narendra Modi...Not even Indira Gandhi did this during the Emergency. All we wanted to do is a peaceful protest, and they are picking us up from the flight like we are criminals." Ratna Singh described a different scene. She said officers arrived at her residence in the morning, told her she was not there, and when she asked for an official notification, they had none. "They just said, 'We need to detain you, we have orders from above.' I don't know which 'above' the orders came from for them. And they keep saying, 'Get out of the car, we will detain you at your home.' They don't even want to take me anywhere else, they want me to stay here only. And I am not getting out of the car. They are not leaving this space, so I am in a way illegally detained on the road."
The three leaders had intended to hold a protest at Jantar Mantar against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. Their grievance centered on the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls, which the CJP claimed involved voter-list manipulation. The party said the demonstration aimed to demand the resignation of the Chief Election Commissioner and to register objections to that revision. Delhi Police had refused permission for the rally, citing short notice and prior violations by the organizers. Despite the denial, Abhijeet Dipke had vowed to go ahead with the protest. The CJP subsequently condemned the detentions as a violation of freedom of movement and described them as a pre-planned effort to suppress the demonstration.
Delhi Police had refused permission for the rally, citing short notice and prior violations by the organizers.
Delhi Police reported that it had detained around 500 people who had arrived in the city for the demonstrations, citing the lack of permission and prior violations for the denial.
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The Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls concerns voter lists. The CJP alleges that manipulation of the lists has occurred during this revision. By targeting the Chief Election Commissioner, the party seeks to press for his resignation.
The CJP alleged voter-list manipulation during the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls. The party's grievance centered on this issue, and they intended to demand the resignation of the Chief Election Commissioner and register objections to the revision.