Activists of the Cockroach Janata Party and other civil society organisations are staging a protest at Mumbai’s Shivaji Park against the Election Commission and the alleged irregularities of the SIR process.
Heavy police deployment was seen at Shivaji Park on Friday in view of the protest call. “As you can see, we are starting from Mumbai today. Today, a massive protest is going to happen at Shivaji Park.
CJP spokesperson, Saurav Das alleged that CEC Gyanesh Kumar was a traitor and the whole country would support the calls for his ouster. This is going to be a very big protest. Mumbai showed last time what the spirit of Mumbai is. The youth of the whole country, the young generation, everyone came out last time for the resignation of Dharmendra Pradhan. And this time too, it is going to be the same with Gyanesh Kumar, who is a traitor to the country. The youth of Mumbai are hitting the streets again. And I want, I appeal to all the Mumbaikars and our friends. A few residents of Shivaji Park objected to the park being used as a protest site, citing inconvenience to people living in the area. There was such a huge crowd that it reached Dadar Shivaji Park station itself. He also raised concerns over the presence of schools and a hospital near the protest site, claiming that traffic movement had been affected during the previous protest. Meanwhile, in Delhi, members of the Students’ Federation of India (SFI) and Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) staged a protest near Jantar Mantar against the Election Commission and the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, with CPI(M) leaders demanding the removal of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.
Everyone come,” he said. A local resident, Sunil Bhagwat, while talking to the reporters, said people regularly visit Shivaji Park for walks and claimed that frequent protests were causing inconvenience to the common people. Another resident, Ravindra, referred to the previous protest at the venue and said the crowd had reached Dadar Shivaji Park station and there were bottles of liquor thrown. “The previous time these people protested, they said that it was a spontaneous protest. Bottles of liquor were thrown at those who came here, and these people, the ones who call them ‘Jengi’, call them here by lying,” Ravindra said.
