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AAP Leaders, Workers Detained During Protest Over Election Commissioner's Resignation
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News18•04-10-2026, 17:30
AAP Leaders, Workers Detained During Protest Over Election Commissioner's Resignation
- •More than a dozen Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) workers were detained by police while protesting at India Gate.
- •The protest demanded the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.
- •AAP's Delhi unit chief Saurabh Bharadwaj and MLA Sanjeev Jha were among those detained.
- •Gyanesh Kumar is accused of allowing irregularities in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.
- •Saurabh Bharadwaj claimed Delhi Police tried to hide his face from cameras during the detention.
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AAP leaders and workers protested at India Gate to demand the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, accusing him of allowing irregularities in the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls.
The party's Delhi unit chief Saurabh Bharadwaj and MLA Sanjeev Jha were among the more than a dozen AAP members and at least 25 workers detained by the Delhi Police.
Saurabh Bharadwaj stated on X that he was turned upside down by the Delhi Police at India Gate in an attempt to hide his face from the cameras during the demonstration.
