New Delhi6,000 police are deployed against a flag march.
Two leaders of the Cockroach Janta Party were jailed for 5 days after entering a barred protest site.
The movement began over exam paper leaks and now demands India’s election chief Gyanesh Kumar be removed over voter-roll revisions.
The Delhi High Court on Thursday declined to restrain the march, rejecting a trader’s petition.
Founder Abhijeet Dipke says he will risk arrest despite a police notice barring Connaught Place.
How each outlet framed it
drawn from 300+ reports worldwide · These outlets told this story very differently.
- Hindustan Times leans critical
- casts the CJP march as disrupting Navratri and Durga Puja, using BJP minister Dilip Ghosh's religious-festival framing
- BBC
- frames the march as a fight over the right to protest, noting Central Park is not an approved venue and the court declined a restraining order
- News18
- reports the police notice served at an NCP (SP) spokesperson's Karol Bagh home, the procedural pressure on Dipke
Sources: Hindustan Times, News18, BBC