“Unparalleled and unprecedented” police repression was seen in India this weekend, where thousands of protesters demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar were met a brutal crackdown and mass detentions across Delhi. Dr. Nitheesh Narayanan of the Tricontinental Institute describes the deployment of 50,000 police and armed forces to suppress the youth-led protest – an uprising in response to the removal of more than 130 million names from voter rolls.

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