Delhi Police Detain Left Leaders Protesting Outside Election Commission

The Left parties were demanding the resignation of Kumar when Delhi police detained them. At the time of publishing the report they were being taken to undisclosed locations on police vehicles.

The Wire Staff

The Left parties were demanding the resignation of Kumar when Delhi police detained them. At the time of publishing the report they were being taken to undisclosed locations on police vehicles.

delhi police detain left leaders protesting outside election commission

A policewoman with a Left demonstrator in New Delhi on September 29. Photo: By arrangement.

New Delhi: Several Left party leaders and activists were detained by Delhi Police today, September 29, during a protest outside the Election Commission of India's offices.

Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar is at the centre of a considerable list of questions over how the Election Commission under his watch has conducted the special intensive revision. Recent reports by the Indian Express have revealed that the two other commissioners in the poll body have lodged no fewer than 14 formal objection notes in the past 10 months over various aspects of the SIR.

A Left demonstrator in New Delhi on September 29. Photo: By arrangement.

The Left parties were demanding the resignation of Kumar when Delhi police detained them. At the time of publishing the report they were being taken to undisclosed locations on police vehicles.

Those detained include Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary M.A. Baby, and Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation leaders Sucheta De and Shweta Raj, along with activists from All India Central Council of Trade Unions, All India Lawyers' Association for Justice and other Left organisations.

Left demonstrators in New Delhi on September 29. Photo: By arrangement.

On September 25, Delhi Police dragged and detained students and citizens protesting at Jantar Mantar for the removal of Gyanesh Kumar.

This article went live on September twenty-ninth, two thousand twenty six, at thirty-nine minutes past three in the afternoon.

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