LIVE BLOG: Delhi on high alert as CJP protests against CEC Gyanesh Kumar

Mamata Didi & 5 of us have been detained in a prisoner van by Delhi Police & CRPF from outside Didi’s residence. Being taken to an unknown location. DEATH OF DEMOCRACY IN INDIA https://t.co/jk7UHn6g2Y

— Saket Gokhale (@SaketGokhale) October 10, 2026

#WATCH | Delhi: Former Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan, along with CPI(M) MP John Brittas, detained by police following a protest outside Kerala Bhawan. John Brittas says, "Comrade Pinarayi Vijayan, former Chief Minister of Kerala and now the opposition leader in the Kerala assembly, and KN Balagopal, former finance minister and senior CPI(M) leader, and I, John Brittas. We were then taken in a police jeep. We were taken round and round in Delhi city. Thereafter, we were taken to Chhatrasal Stadium. After 30-45 minutes, we were again taken to a police jeep. And we don't know where we are going. This is the situation... Delhi is under siege. Delhi has been completely taken over by the Delhi police. I feel that basic civil liberties are being taken away by the Delhi police and also the central forces... If PM Modi and Amit Shah think that they can protect Gyanesh Kumar, let us warn them that they also will sink along with Gyanesh Kumar. No fascist who has panicked and resorted to force has survived in history." (Source: Office of John Brittas)

— ANI (@ANI) October 10, 2026

I returned to the national capital after 2 am and have rarely seen anything like what Delhi is witnessing now, with checkpoints every few hundred metres, concrete barriers and spike strips laid across our roads, a war-like deployment of 22,000 police and paramilitary across the city, 250 trains cancelled and 45 metro stations closed, and reports of young people being detained from their own homes and the streets in and around Delhi -- all to prevent citizens from peacefully raising questions about the integrity of our elections. Most regressive (as well as repressive) is the suspension of the internet in the heart of the national capital. Freedom of movement stands completely shackled. Jantar Mantar was designated precisely so that citizens could voice dissent in the centre of Delhi, and today even the roads leading to it have been declared out of bounds. One is entitled to ask where this extraordinary manpower and urgency disappear when women in our capital need protection. Those detained will hvre to be released .And if the protesters simply return on Monday, will the authorities lock down the national capital all over again? Our GenZ deserves better than an undeclared Emer-GenZ. A government confident in the fairness of its elections would welcome questions about them, whereas one that turns its capital into a fortress to avoid them only deepens the very suspicions it seeks to suppress. The government should provide answers, not lathis; expression, not repression. Barricades will do nothing to restore faith in the Election Commission, and the sooner it answers the public's questions, the sooner calm will be restored. The strength of a democracy is measured by how it treats those who question its working, and by that measure, what we have seen today is utterly shameful and unconscionable. https://t.co/C3jkLU1dm1 @INCIndia

— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) October 10, 2026

CJP claims its convener Abhijeet Dipke, co-conveners Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka arrested from inside their flight when they were on the way to protest against Gyanesh Kumar at Jantar Mantar in Delhi. #CJPProtest #AbhijeetDipke #SauravDas #AshutoshRanka #GyaneshKumar #DelhiProtests #BreakingNews #LIVEUpdates

— India Blooms (@indiablooms) October 10, 2026

🚨 ABHIJEET DIPKE, SAURAV DAS AND ASHUTOSH RANKA DETAINED FROM INSIDE THEIR FLIGHT 🚨 Shame on you @narendramodi @AmitShah https://t.co/hXl6bzh53i

— Cockroach Janta Party - CJP (@Cockroachisback) October 10, 2026