Overview
- The Cockroach Janta Party founder Abhijeet Dipke was arrested before a planned New Delhi rally and was released from custody on Saturday after about 24 hours.
- Two other CJP leaders, Ashutosh Ranka and Saurav Das, remain held after being arrested for entering the restricted Jantar Mantar site on October 14 and were ordered detained for at least five days.
- Authorities have deployed thousands of police, closed central rally sites and erected heavy barricades in New Delhi, and local reports say security forces detained large numbers of protesters to prevent mass gatherings.
- Opposition figures, led by Rahul Gandhi, have taken the dispute to the Supreme Court seeking annulment of the electoral‑roll revision and are demanding the resignation of Election Commission chief Gyanesh Kumar.
- The row centers on a nationwide voter‑list scrub that removed roughly 130 million names, critics say it disproportionately affects minorities and could erode public trust in elections while the Election Commission denies irregularity.