India's Generation Z group 'Cockroach People's Party' leads protests demanding resignation of election committee chairman

The media report that ‘voter lists were modified to favor the ruling party’ was the catalyst.

Cockroach Party "Protest until resignation"... Protests also begin on the 6th

(Jakarta = Yonhap News) Correspondent Hyun-gyu Son = An online group of India's Generation Z (born 1995-2007) held a large-scale protest demanding the resignation of the Election Commission Chairman in connection with suspicions that the voter list was changed to favor the ruling party.

According to Reuters, AP, and Bloomberg News on the 3rd (local time), thousands of supporters of the Cockroach People's Party (CJP), an Indian Generation Z political movement group, gathered at Shivaji Park in western Mumbai, the economic center, the afternoon of the previous day and demanded the resignation of Election Commission Chairman Gyanesh Kumar.

Protesters waved Indian flags, condemned the Election Commission, and chanted, "It's over now. Gyanesh Kumar must resign."

In New Delhi, where security was strengthened the day before, police blocked the road near Jantar Mantar, a government-designated protest site, with barricades, and about 700 people, including former Delhi Chief Minister Atishi and opposition party members, were arrested, India's PTI news agency reported.

Rishabh Singh, a protest participant, shouted as he was taken away by the police, saying, "Protesting is our basic right," and "We demand an explanation from the government about vote rigging."

CJP spokesperson Saurabh Das predicted that protests would continue until Chairman Kumar resigns.

“We only protested for a few hours today,” he said. “We plan to continue protests throughout this month not only in Mumbai but also in Kolkata (in the east) and Bangalore (in the south).”

The CJP, which was formed mainly online, led Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan to resign in large-scale protests against the leak of medical school entrance exam questions in July.

Not only the CJP, but also the Indian National Development Alliance (INDIA), a political alliance of about 20 opposition parties including the Indian National Congress (INC), announced that they would begin protests demanding Chairman Kumar's resignation from the 6th.

All opposition party members are planning to march to the Election Commission office in Delhi, INDIA added.

Suspicions regarding the National Election Commission's voter list became known last month through a report by Indian media outlet Indian Express.

According to this media report, two election commissioners reportedly expressed opposition to the reorganization, saying that some decisions and orders were made without their knowledge in the process of deleting millions of people from the draft voter list.

In response, the National Election Commission countered that differences of opinion among election commissioners were a normal occurrence that could occur in any organization and that all measures were legal.

However, INC claims that the Election Commission changed the voter list in favor of the ruling BJP (BJP), and is demanding the resignation of Election Commission Chairman Kumar as well as Prime Minister Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah.

Earlier this year, state assembly elections were held in the eastern state of West Bengal after about 9 million voters were removed from the voter rolls, and the BJP won a landslide victory in the state for the first time.