India Detains Rahul Gandhi
Police detained Rahul Gandhi twice as protests grew over 130 million names cut from India's voter rolls.
The argument
Cleaning the voter rolls or purging the voters?
Police detained Rahul Gandhi twice as protests grew over 130 million names cut from India's voter rolls.
Cleaning the voter rolls or purging the voters?
AAP Delhi chief Saurabh Bharadwaj announced a nationwide protest on Oct 10 centered on Jantar Mantar, backing the Cockroach Janata Party's call along with Left parties and student groups.
Police detained Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and other opposition leaders in New Delhi on Oct 7 as they headed to Jantar Mantar to demand Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar resign.
Priyanka Gandhi lay down on a Delhi street to request a meeting, the bluntest calendar invite in politics.
Narendra Modi faces a protest led by a parody party, the one rival his campaign machine cannot out-meme.
Jantar Mantar is India's designated protest site, which this week meant the first place the police barricaded.
A voter roll is democracy's guest list, and this autumn India's bouncers turned away a crowd bigger than Japan.
Gen Z in India learned the fastest way to build a party is to be called a pest by a judge.
The Election Commission of India insists every complaint is investigated, while 300 MPs sit outside asking to file one in person.