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Delhi Police Detain 100 Protesters Demanding CEC Resignation

By Drooid · Oct 24, 2026, 10:20 AM UTC · How we work

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Police Suppress Dissent

On Friday, Delhi police detained 100 protesters marching toward the Election Commission of India headquarters, demanding Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation.
The demonstrators and allied civil-society groups condemned the police as suppressing dissent and warned the Special Intensive Revision could disenfranchise ordinary voters.
500 participants from student, farmer, women’s and youth groups marched.
Yogendra Yadav, Annie Raja and Inderjeet Singh accused the government of undermining constitutional safeguards.

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Section 163 Ban

Delhi police detained 100 protesters marching toward the Election Commission of India headquarters in New Delhi on Friday.
Protesters carried the national flag and chanted slogans demanding Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation.
Police invoked Section 163 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita to ban the gathering.
Rapid Action Force units were deployed and traffic on roads diverted from 1 pm to 5 pm.

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Demonstrators and allied civil-society groups condemned the police’s detention of the march as suppressing democratic dissent and warned that the Special Intensive Revision could disenfranchise ordinary voters.
Within this story's sources, this angle appears mainly in Left-leaning coverage and receives less attention in Right-leaning coverage.

History

Historical Context

In 1975 Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declared a national Emergency, suspending elections and authorising police to detain dissenters, a move condemned by the Janata Party as an assault on constitutional safeguards. Today, the arrest of about 100 demonstrators demanding CEC Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation under the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita echoes that Emergency-era use of emergency-type powers to curb electoral challenges, reviving concerns over democratic erosion.

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Police Suppress Dissent

On Friday, Delhi police detained 100 protesters marching toward the Election Commission of India headquarters, demanding Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation.
The demonstrators and allied civil-society groups condemned the police as suppressing dissent and warned the Special Intensive Revision could disenfranchise ordinary voters.
500 participants from student, farmer, women’s and youth groups marched.
Yogendra Yadav, Annie Raja and Inderjeet Singh accused the government of undermining constitutional safeguards.

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