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Can India’s ‘cockroach’ movement oust Modi’s election chief?



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xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogleAdd Al Jazeera on GoogleinfoNeha Bora, national president of the All India Students’ Association (AISA), reacts as she is detained by police during a protest demanding the resignation of India’s chief election commissioner, Gyanesh Kumar, in New Delhi, India, on October 2, 2026 [Bhawika Chhabra/Reuters]By Yashraj SharmaPublished On 2 Oct 20262 Oct 2026New Delhi, India – Central parts of the Indian capital turned into a ghost town on Friday as Prime Minister Narendra

The government shut down metro stations leading to central Delhi and suspended internet services. Heavily deployed government forces blocked all entries to Parliament Street and the Jantar Mantar protest strip – the stage of the youth movement that forced out Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan just two months ago.

Saurav Yadav, a 24-year-old musician from Gwalior, a city in central India nearly 335km (210 miles) from New Delhi, took an overnight bus to join the protest, called by the cockroach movement and joined by a spectrum of opposition parties and unions.

But as Yadav approached the site – his first time in the Indian capital – he was dragged away by two policemen, even as he held the tricolour national flag in his hands. “This government is managing the elections. Just imagine, the only thing that gives them power is managed!” Yadav told Al Jazeera, sitting startled in the back of a police van.

“We are just cosplaying democracy,” he said, sweating profusely. “We cannot keep pretending this.”

The cockroach movement is taking the street protests to several Indian cities in the coming days, including in the country’s financial capital, Mumbai, later on Friday. But youth protest leaders, emboldened by their success against the education minister, face a new set of challenges as they set their sights on the Modi government’s most politically prized bureaucrat.

Last week, India was shaken by new revelations showing divisions within the supposedly autonomous body that is in charge of conducting its elections over controversial policies that critics say have disenfranchised tens of millions of people.

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