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CJP Announces Chappal Protest In Bengaluru With Prakash Raj In Solidarity With Women
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Moneycontrol•07-10-2026, 12:04
CJP Announces Chappal Protest In Bengaluru With Prakash Raj In Solidarity With Women
- •Citizens for Justice and Peace announced a Chappal protest in Bengaluru at Freedom Park on October 8 in solidarity with women journalists allegedly harassed by a Delhi Police officer.
- •Actor Prakash Raj and various civil society groups are set to join the demonstration following a People’s Tribunal on the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls.
- •Organizers are protesting against alleged irregularities in the voter list revision, demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.
- •CJP leaders criticized police actions in Maharashtra and Delhi, accusing authorities of trying to suppress planned protests and demonstrations.
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The Chappal protest in Bengaluru has been announced by Citizens for Justice and Peace in solidarity with women journalists who alleged sexual harassment by a Delhi Police officer at Jantar Mantar.
Civil society groups want all voter deletions made during the Special Intensive Revision exercise scrapped, the pre-SIR electoral rolls retained, and Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar to resign.
Abhijeet Dipke alleged that Chandrapur police served notices on CJP activists pressuring them not to attend the Delhi protest, questioned how police anticipated violence in advance, and criticized the misuse of police for political ambitions.
