‘Comrades, return to Jantar Mantar’: AISA’s Neha tells protesters to not be intimidated after 700 detained | India News
NEW DELHI: All India Students’ Association (AISA) national president Neha Bora on Friday urged protesters to return to Jantar Mantar and continue their demonstration over the right to vote, shortly after she was detained during the protest.“All comrades, please return to Jantar Mantar and stand together for democracy and our right to vote. Do not be intimidated. Do not be silenced. Our peaceful protest continues,” Bora said.AAP leaders detainedEarlier today, several Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leades including Atishi, Saurabh Bharadwaj were detained from Jantar Mantar as protests over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls intensified, with the number of people detained crossing 700.Atishi’s X post reads, “Modi Ji: We haven’t come here to fear your police. To save the right to vote, we will keep fighting ✊🏼”“Despite the peaceful protest, Delhi Police arrested MLA Sanjeev Jha ji and Saurabh. But the movement will continue!,” reads offical AAP X post.Bharadwaj, on X, later informed that more than 500 people had reached Jantar Mantar ahead of the scheduled protest. “GenZ rocks,” he wrote.According to TOI sources, mobile internet services have been disrupted in the Jantar Mantar area, with some users receiving a message stating that internet services have been suspended in the area “as per government instructions” until further notice.READ ALSO: Watch: Tamil Nadu CM Vijay plays bus conductor, hands out tickets after expanding free travel schemeProtest planned across citiesMassive protests are planned in Delhi and Mumbai today, with the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) set to launch its nationwide agitation from Mumbai’s Shivaji Park.The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), All India Students’ Association (AISA), National Students’ Union of India (NSUI) and Indian Youth Congress (IYC) have announced a separate demonstration at Jantar Mantar in Delhi.“Appointment of CEC should be transparent; there should be involvement of civil society,” Dipke said in Mumbai.The CJP and opposition parties have criticised Kumar over the SIR of electoral rolls and demanded his resignation.Their criticism intensified after it emerged that Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi had recorded objections on at least 14 occasions over 10 months to certain decisions and orders, some of which they said were issued without their knowledge.The Election Commission later clarified that the three-member commission had taken all decisions, including those relating to the SIR, unanimouslyCJP’s Dipke urges people to join protest at Mumbai’s Shivaji ParkIn a new video, Dipke was seen posing with an auto driver as the two urged commuters and residents to gather at the protest venue. “Chala chala shivaji park.. shivaji park… shivaji park…,” the caption reads.The auto driver in the video can be heard saying ‘Shivaji Park 4 baje’.Police deny permission in Delhi, MumbaiPolice in both Delhi and Mumbai have denied permission for the proposed protests. In Delhi, prohibitory orders under Section 163 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) are in force across the New Delhi district, restricting public meetings or assemblies of five or more people, processions, demonstrations, picketing and dharnas without prior written permission.
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Delhi DCP said that the restrictions have been imposed to ensure public safety, maintain public order and facilitate smooth traffic movement.In Mumbai, police have also denied permission for the proposed gathering at Shivaji Park. Police said they were not authorised to permit such a gathering there in view of a 2013 Bombay High Court order and described the area as a silence zone.Meanwhile, the Delhi Metro has also closed entry and exit at 11 stations, including Rajiv Chowk, Central Secretariat, Janpath, Patel Chowk, Seva Teerth, Mandi House, Lok Kalyan Marg, INA, Chawri Bazar, Ramakrishna Ashram Marg and New Delhi, until further notice.
