Central Delhi locked down, internet cut as youth protest demands election chief quit

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Authorities sealed central Delhi ahead of a youth-led protest calling for Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar to resign over a voter-list revision critics say favors Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s BJP. Police and paramilitaries were deployed, metro stations shut, mobile internet suspended, and markets closed.

Central Delhi was sealed on Saturday, with thousands of police and paramilitaries on patrol, metro stations shut, mobile internet suspended and markets closed to guard against a youth protest demanding India’s chief election officer quit. The protest, called ‌by the “cockroach” youth movement, hopes to draw thousands of demonstrators who want Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar to quit over a revision of voter lists that critics say favours Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata...