Kejriwal condemns detentions ahead of Delhi protest

Aam Aadmi Party convenor Arvind Kejriwal condemned police detentions of people traveling to a planned protest in Delhi, calling the security response worse than the Emergency and demanding the resignations of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Kejriwal made the comments on X on Saturday, October 10, as the Cockroach Janata Party and youth groups prepared to demonstrate at Jantar Mantar. The protest was scheduled to call for Kumar’s resignation over allegations of voter theft. The allegations are political claims and are not independently established in the reports. The reports identified CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke, Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka among those detained. They did not establish how many people were detained or detail the circumstances. Kejriwal described the detentions as evidence of fear and accused the government of suppressing democracy. Those assertions reflected his political position; the accounts did not provide independent evidence for them. Kejriwal also said he and his family would attend the protest, but the reports did not confirm whether they did.