{"id":2814,"date":"2026-10-17T10:03:54","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T05:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2814"},"modified":"2026-10-17T10:03:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T05:03:54","slug":"indias-cockroach-movement-founder-arrested-after-detention-media-reports-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2814","title":{"rendered":"India’s ‘cockroach’ movement founder arrested after detention, media reports say"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Police arrested Indian \u201ccockroach\u201d movement founder Abhijeet Dipke, according to several media reports on Saturday, after he was \u200bdetained on Friday ahead of a Delhi rally that drew hundreds of people \u200cwaving the national flag and demanding the resignation of India\u2019s election chief.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dipke was arrested to prevent a breach of the peace and will be called before a Special Executive Magistrate on Saturday, broadcasters NDTV and \u200bIndia Today said.<\/p>\n

Delhi police did not immediately respond to an emailed request for comment.<\/p>\n

The \u200byouth-led Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), opposition groups and student organisations have held near-daily protests \u2060this month demanding Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar\u2019s<\/a> resignation over a revision of voter lists<\/a> that \u200bthey say favours Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).<\/p>\n

More than 130 million voters were deleted \u200bduring the revision. The Election Commission has denied favouring any party and said wrongly deleted voters can re-enrol.<\/p>\n

The BJP has accused rivals of trying to undermine democracy by wrongly questioning legitimate electoral processes.<\/p>\n

Student activist Neha \u200bBora, a prominent face of the protests, who was also detained on Friday as she \u200btried to reach central Delhi with dozens of supporters, was released on Saturday.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlease, spare the people of India. \u200cImpeach \u2060Gyanesh Kumar and halt SIR (special intensive revision), so that the ordinary citizens of this country can breathe a sigh of relief, feel at ease, and have their voting rights ensured,\u201d Bora told ANI news agency after she was released.<\/p>\n

Dipke was detained<\/a> on Friday as he stepped out of \u200ba house in central \u200bDelhi, with police hauling \u2060him into a police car and driving away after a brief argument.<\/p>\n

Dipke had called Friday\u2019s protest in support of two CJP leaders detained \u200band sent to jail this week for five days for demonstrating at \u200ba protest \u2060site in violation of a ban.<\/p>\n

Earlier on Friday, police had met Dipke and warned him against going ahead with the protest.<\/p>\n

The cockroach movement has emerged as one of the biggest political challenges faced \u2060by \u200bModi and the BJP in the prime minister\u2019s 12 \u200byears in power.<\/p>\n

A weeks-long sit-in by supporters of the movement earlier this year forced Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan to resign over exam paper leaks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Police arrested Indian \u201ccockroach\u201d movement founder Abhijeet Dipke, according to several media reports on Saturday, after he was \u200bdetained on Friday ahead of a Delhi rally that drew hundreds of people \u200cwaving the national flag and demanding the resignation of India\u2019s election chief. Dipke was arrested to prevent a breach of the peace and will be called before a Special Executive Magistrate on Saturday, broadcasters NDTV and \u200bIndia Today said. Delhi police did not immediately respond to an emailed request for comment. The \u200byouth-led Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), opposition groups…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}