Protests continue in India calling for the resignation of the National Election Commission Chairman... There are also calls for Modi to step down.

In India, protests calling for the resignation of the National Election Commission Chairman, which began when the voter list of over 130 million people were deleted, continued for more than 10 days.

According to Reuters, AFP, and Associated Press on the 12th (local time), thousands of supporters of the Indian opposition party and the Cockroach People's Party (CJP), an Indian Generation Z political movement group, staged a protest in the capital New Delhi this afternoon, demanding a stop to the revision of voter lists and the resignation of Election Commission Chairman Gyanesh Kumar.

Protesters attempted to march to the Supreme Court of India and plan to submit a petition to Chief Justice Surya Kant today demanding the resignation of Election Commissioner Kumar.

Previously, Chief Justice Kant rejected the opposition party's request for a meeting and suggested that they submit a petition instead.

Abai Aryan (28), who participated in the protest, said, “You can see how big the demonstrators are,” and emphasized, “The government must listen to the voices of the people.”

Among the protesters, there were also voices calling for Prime Minister Narendra Modi to step down.

“I want this government to step down because of all the injustices we have suffered over the past 12 years (when Prime Minister Modi was in power),” Mehvaish told AFP. “Now if they take away our right to vote, what will be left for us?”

Since last weekend, the Indian government has installed barricades and concrete blocks at major entrances to downtown New Delhi to block vehicle traffic, and has also deployed water cannons in case of an emergency.

Rahul Gandhi, former leader of the Indian National Congress (INC), the main opposition party in the Indian Federal Assembly, criticized Prime Minister Modi for protecting Election Commission Chairman Kumar at a press conference that day, saying, "People are blocked from entering Delhi."

On this day, the Indian police excluded Jantar Mantar, an astronomical observatory in the central business district, from the government-designated protest site and announced the selection of three new locations.

The protests began in western Mumbai, the economic center, on the 2nd of this month, and spread to other major cities such as New Delhi and Kolkata starting last weekend.

Last month, Indian media outlet Indian Express first reported on suspicions related to the National Election Commission's voter list.

The National Election Commission's revision of the voter list resulted in the deletion of the names of 133 million people, which is more than the entire population of Japan.

Suspicions were raised that a large number of opposition party supporters were deleted from the list during this process, and it was also pointed out that the People's Party of India (BJP), the ruling party in the federal parliament led by Prime Minister Modi, may have an advantage in future elections.

However, the Indian National Election Commission refuted that there was no inappropriate behavior, saying that differences of opinion among election commissioners were a normal occurrence that could occur in any organization.