Published Oct 10, 2026 | 9:07 AM ⚊ Updated Oct 10, 2026 | 9:07 AM
Heavy police presence in Delhi ahead of CJP protest
It’s Fortress Delhi that is greeting agitators on Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) protest day.
With over 26,000 armed personnel and a sea of barricades on the ground, Delhi is seeing its biggest lockdown since Covid.
The protests, as all of India knows, are directed against the Election Commission of India’s Chief Election Commissioner, Gyanesh Kumar, and the controversial Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls. The CJP has demanded the scrapping of SIR and the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, while also demanding a cleansing of the process that nominates the CEC.
Over 1,000 people have already been detained overnight in Delhi, according to reports.
CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke has slammed the detentions, claiming, “Modi has accepted defeat even before our protest has begun.”
Popular YouTuber and political commentator Dhruv Rathee has reportedly been detained.
Posting the update, the CJP claimed: "The Dictator is TERRIFIED of young people who question its wrongdoings and refuse to stay silent!"
Dhruv Rathee has been detained.
The Dictator is TERRIFIED of young people who question its wrongdoings and refuse to stay silent!
— Cockroach Janta Party - CJP (@Cockroachisback) October 10, 2026
Multiple reports say Delhi Police detained protesters who gathered at Jantar Mantar, on Sansad Marg, and near Hotel Le Méridien, for the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) protest.
#WATCH | Delhi: Police detain a few students and protesters who had reached near Hotel Le Méridien ahead of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) protest today. https://t.co/qFyLtXPfjT
— ANI (@ANI) October 10, 2026
According to a LiveLaw report, a contempt petition has been filed in the Supreme Court alleging that authorities continued to shut down Delhi Metro stations and restrict public transport services in violation of the Court's October 9 order, which directed that there should be no complete prohibition on transport services to handle the October 10 protests announced by the CJP and opposition parties against the Chief Election Commissioner.
As the developments unfold in Delhi, we have an alert that over 70 lakh voters maybe excluded from the final rolls in Telangana.
Roughly four in every five electors who received notices during Telangana's Special Intensive Revision (SIR) have been cleared for the final electoral roll, according to the latest status report issued by the Chief Electoral Officer's (CEO) office on Friday, 9 October.
Of the 92,88,187 notices generated for electors with discrepancies in their records or no mapping to the 2002 rolls, 92,23,486 have been delivered.
Officials have held 82,11,205 hearings and a total of 74,62,851 electors have been found eligible for final publication. Decisions on 18,12,367 electors are pending.
So far, 73,39,235 electors have been placed in the Absent, Shifted, Duplicate and Death (ASDD) category.
Telangana's voter strength had touched the 3.35-crore mark early this year.
Amid speculation of tensions rising in Delhi, Delhi Police personnel deployed for security are set to use body cameras on their uniform.
Speaking with ANI, a police personnel said, "These body cams are to protect us and others. In situations of manhandling, allegations are levelled against Delhi Police. So, these body cams will prove whether we did anything to anyone or not. This will record everything."
#WATCH | Delhi Police personnel use body cameras on their uniform as they are deployed for security ahead of the CJP protest today. These body cameras work even in the dark.
A Police personnel says, "These body cams are to protect us and others. In situations of manhandling, allegations are levelled against Delhi Police. So, these body cams will prove whether we did anything to anyone or not. This will record eveything..."
— ANI (@ANI) October 10, 2026
Responding to the police excess, and reported overnight detentions of over 1,000 people in Delhi, CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke claimed, "Modi has accepted defeat even before our protest has begun."
He further wrote on X: The mass crackdown on protesters and the shutdown of Delhi are not signs of strength, but of a leader terrified of his own people.
Modi has accepted defeat even before our protest has begun.
The mass crackdown on protesters and the shutdown of Delhi are not signs of strength, but of a leader terrified of his own people.
— Abhijeet Dipke (@abhijeet_dipke) October 10, 2026
According to Indian Express report, at least 1000 people were detained overnight in the capital ahead of the protest. As of 12:30 AM on Saturday, around 250 of these detainees were from Delhi’s South East district, particularly from areas around Shaheen Bagh, which was the centre of the anti-CAA protests of 2020, a police source told The Indian Express. More than 100 are from the Shahdara and East Delhi district, which border Uttar Pradesh, another Delhi Police official said.
