POLITICS● ELEVATED4d ago · Oct 10, 2026, 1:13 AM
India’s capital locked down as youth protest targets election chief
South China Morning Post · south asia
Central Delhi was sealed on Saturday, with thousands of police and paramilitaries on patrol, metro stations shut, mobile internet suspended and markets closed to guard against a youth protest demanding India’s chief election officer quit. The protest, called by the “cockroach” youth movement, hopes to draw thousands of demonstrators who want Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar to quit over a revision of voter lists that critics say favours Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata...
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