Activists Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan were detained by Delhi Police near INA Market while marching towards a planned 'Jantar Mantar 2.0' protest against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over electoral rolls revision.
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Activists planned a 'Jantar Mantar 2.0' protest against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over the Election Commission's special intensive revision of electoral rolls.
NEW DELHI: Activists Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan, along with CPI(ML) Liberation general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya and student leader Neha Bora, were detained near INA Market on Saturday while heading to the Cockroach Janta Party’s (CJP) planned ‘Jantar Mantar 2.0’ protest.
The detentions came amid a sweeping crackdown in the national capital ahead of the demonstration against chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over the Election Commission’s special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. Earlier, Yadav, a psephologist and former AAP leader, and Bhushan, a lawyer and his former comrade from the Anna Andolan, were seen marching from Jor Bagh towards Dilli Haat-INA alongside AISA's Bora.
The group was reportedly on its way to join the CJP protest when police detained them near INA Market. A video showed the psephologist and former AAP leader Yadav walking alongside Bhushan, a lawyer and former AAP colleague, and AISA student leader Neha Bora.
The latest detentions came after CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke and leaders Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka were detained by Delhi Police shortly after arriving at Indira Gandhi International Airport from Mumbai. Police personnel boarded their aircraft to take the three leaders into custody. The CJP had called for a demonstration demanding Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation over the SIR exercise.
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