India’s ‘cockroaches’ are BACK - now they’re fighting for the vote
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India’s ‘cockroaches’ are back. This time, the Gen-Z movement is demanding the resignation of the man overseeing the country’s elections - Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar - to resign. [Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https://channel4news.substack.com/subscribe] They claim more than 130 million names have been deleted from India’s electoral roll. It comes just months after the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) inspired a wave of protests across the country earlier this year, which led to the resignation of India's education minister following an exam leak scandal. Authorities have said the commission’s so-called Special Intensive Revision is just a draft, to remove duplicates and ineligible entries. But critics - including opposition leader Rahul Gandhi - have warned that it’s a way of manipulating the voting system in favour of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Mr Gandhi was detained by police this after he joined dozens of other MPs in marching on the Election Commission’
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