CJP vows to intensify stir
In Short
- 200 held on day 2 of protests
- Team Dipke freed on condition
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Cockroach Janta Party co-conveners Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka, along with legal head Ratna Singh, during a press conference in New Delhi on Sunday
New Delhi: The Cockroach Janta Party on Sunday vowed to intensify its agitation against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, even as around 200 people were detained while protests were held at several places in the New Delhi area that remained under a security chokehold.
Earlier in the day, CJP leaders Abhijeet Dipke, Ashutosh Ranka and Saurav Das were released on the condition that they would not "breach peace" for a year.
At a press conference, Das alleged that the government had turned the state against its own citizens and said the authorities could have invited a delegation for talks instead of restricting protesters seeking to demonstrate at a designated site.
He claimed that Delhi Police officials took away their phones during their detention without issuing any seizure memo, raising concerns that the devices may have been hacked or cloned. "We suspect that, as alleged in similar cases involving activists in the past, their phones could have been hacked or cloned to plant documents or other material that might later be used as evidence against us," he said during the press conference.
He said that the CJP's agitation was continuing, adding that protests would take place not just in Delhi but across the country. "The protests are on... Protests will happen not just in Delhi but the whole country," Das said. "This protest will not stop till Gyanesh resigns," CJP co-convener Ashutosh Ranka said. Referring to the condition imposed on their release, Das said that they had been told there should be no breach of peace for one year.
"The breach of peace has been caused by Narendra Modi, Amit Shah and Gyanesh Kumar," the CJP leader said, adding that protest at designated protest spot is not disturbing peace. Delhi Police has registered 20 FIRs in connection with Saturday's CJP protest against the CEC over alleged irregularities in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, officials said on Sunday.
The FIRs include charges related to assault on police personnel and obstruction of public servants in the discharge of their duties, among other offences.
