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Harvard Student Group Backs Delhi Protests and Demands Release of Detainees
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CNBC TV18•11-10-2026, 18:41
Harvard Student Group Backs Delhi Protests and Demands Release of Detainees
- •The Casteless Caucus at the Harvard Kennedy School expressed solidarity with New Delhi protesters demanding electoral reforms and the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.
- •Protests led by the youth-led Cockroach Janta Party called for transparency over the exclusion of over 130 million names from India voter rolls.
- •Hundreds of demonstrators, including journalists, students, and political figures, faced mass detention by security forces during the Saturday protests.
- •The Harvard student group demanded an independent inquiry into the voter roll revision process and the immediate release of all individuals in illegal custody.
- •India Permanent Mission in Geneva rejected UN human rights concerns regarding the detentions as misplaced and an unwarranted interference in internal affairs.
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Protesters gathered in New Delhi to demand electoral reforms and the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over allegations of voter list manipulation during the Special Intensive Revision exercise.
The Casteless Caucus, a student organisation at the Harvard Kennedy School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, expressed solidarity with the protests and called for the release of detained individuals.
India's Permanent Mission in Geneva rejected the UN human rights office's concerns as misplaced and an unwarranted interference in the country's internal affairs.
