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Police detained more than 2,000 protesters and the founder of the "Cockroach" youth movement in Delhi on Saturday (Oct 10) as security forces locked down parts of the capital to thwart a rally demanding the resignation of India's election chief.

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00:01Police detained more than 2,000 protesters and the founder of the cockroach youth movement in Delhi on Saturday,
00:09as security forces locked down parts of the capital to thwart a rally demanding the resignation of India's election chief.
00:18Thousands of police and paramilitary personnel were deployed across the city.
00:23Mobile internet services were suspended in the central business district, and dozens of metro stations and markets were shut,
00:32as authorities moved to stop a demonstration organized by the cockroach movement.
00:37The protest was aimed at Chief Election Commissioner Gainesh Kumar over a revision of voter lists
00:43that critics say disproportionately benefits Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling, Bharatiya Janata Party.
00:51The movement had planned to gather thousands of people at Jantar Mantar in central Delhi,
00:57but the area was sealed off by security forces before the demonstration began.
01:02All the days coming to Delhi were stopped. More than 57 metro stations were blocked. All the roads leading to
01:09Jantar Mantar were blocked.
01:10And when the students gathered on this highway, we saw how the Delhi police not to charge on them,
01:15how women protesters were dragged into the policeman and they were detained.
01:19We will see all these things. We will see what kind of atrocities they can do on us. We will
01:25see all that.
01:25We will see how many people can they detain. We will see how many people they can send to jail.
01:30And despite all that tag down, we are here to say that we are not afraid of this Modi government.
01:35We are here to ask for a very valid demand of the resignation of Gainesh Kumar,
01:43small protests also broke out elsewhere in Delhi, including at a popular crafts market and the Memorial to Freedom Movement
01:51leader,
01:52Mahatma Gandhi, with demonstrators demanding Kumar's resignation.
01:57The demonstrations represent one of the most serious tests yet for Modi,
02:02stemming from allegations that election authorities improperly revised voter rolls ahead of recent state polls.
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