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Police and paramilitaries ⁠patrol the capital and internet suspended, amid demands chief election officer resignsPolice in New Delhi detained scores of protesters on Saturday as ⁠thousands of officers and paramilitaries ⁠patrolled India’s capital, metro stations ​were shut and mobile internet suspended to guard against a youth protest demanding India’s chief election officer quit.The protest, called by the “Cockroach” youth movement, hopes to draw thousands of demonstrators ⁠who want the chief election commissioner, Gyanesh Kumar, to quit over a revision of voter lists that critics say favours prime minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata party. Continue reading...

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