Opposition leader Rahul Gandhi and several lawmakers were detained in New Delhi as they demanded the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.
Indian police detained opposition leader Rahul Gandhi and several lawmakers on Wednesday as they launched an unannounced protest in New Delhi, Reuters reported. It was the third detention in two days.
The lawmakers are demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over a revision of voter lists that the opposition calls controversial. Reuters has previously reported on the drive to verify India's roughly one billion voters and the scrutiny it has drawn.
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra attended the protest with her brother, according to the caption on a Reuters photograph from the scene. The agency did not publish a police statement or a count of people held in the dispatch used for this brief.
The protest is separate from the Reserve Bank's rate decision the same morning. No charge sheet or court order was cited in the Reuters report.
The item is the detention and the demand for Kumar's resignation. Claims about the voter-roll revision itself are not re-litigated here beyond the opposition's stated demand.
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- Opposition lawmakers demanded that Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar resign over the voter-list revision.