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India detains youth protest leader to defuse rally against election chief

NEW DELHI, Oct 10 (Reuters) Police detained scores of protesters and their leaders on in the Indian capital on Saturday amid patrols by thousands of security forces, with travel and telecoms links suspended, in a lockdown to stop a youth protest asking the election chief to quit. The protest by the Cockroach youth movement aimed to draw thousands of demonstrators against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over a revision of voter lists that critics say favours Prime Minister Narendra Modis Bharatiya Janata Party. Long live the revolution, chanted some of the young protesters in central Delhi chased by police,

10 Oct 2026 12:51 pm