Indian police detain ‘cockroach’ movement leaders demanding election chief’s resignation

The youth-led Cockroach Janta Party and opposition groups accuse the Election Commission of manipulating voter rolls to benefit Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s BJP, a charge the poll panel denies.

Top leaders of India’s “cockroach” youth movement were detained on Tuesday after they jumped barricades to enter the grounds of a historic observatory popular for protests, chanting slogans demanding the chief election commissioner’s resignation over a controversial revision of voter lists.