‘Modi may have power, but we have the streets’: CJP’s Dipke leads Bengaluru protest against SIR
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Cockroach Janata Party founder Abhijit Dipke shared on Thursday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi “may have the power now, but we have the streets and we will reclaim our power from here,” as thousands gathered at Bengaluru’s Freedom Park to protest against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls and demand the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.
Adding to this, Abhijit Dipke, Prakash Raj and Dhruv Rathee joined thousands at Bengaluru’s Freedom Park to protest SIR and demand Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation. (AP Photo/) At a “People’s Tribunal” organised by civil society groups and the CJP, Dipke alleged that the deletion of voters was being used to disenfranchise people opposed to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Meanwhile, The protest is witnessing a large Gen Z participation. The chants were punctuated by cries of “Inquilab Zindabad” and slogans demanding Kumar’s resignation.
Notably, Dipke shared people whose names had allegedly been recorded as belonging to deceased voters were present at the protest. “People who were declared dead are standing here alive. So the death that has taken place is not the death of these people. It is the death of the democracy of this country,” he shared.
As per the latest buzz, Dipke had also posted that “mass detentions being done before the 10 October protest in New Delhi. Modi thinks he can silence dissent by putting people behind bars.”
In further updates, “The more people you detain, the more people will show up!” Dipke warned.
On top of that, YouTuber Dhruv Rathee and star-activist Prakash Raj addressed the gathering too.
Rathee questioned the alleged removal of 70 lakh voters in West Bengal before the elections and their subsequent addition to the rolls. He also questioned the deletion of more than 40 lakh names in Bihar and the subsequent disclosure of the names following a Supreme Court direction. “In UP, over 14 lakhs were ‘added’ suddenly. Who are these people? While in Goa, even though EROs wanted to add, ECI didn’t allow,” he shared.
Source: Hindustan Times