00:00Now, while that protest gets underway and we keep dipping into getting you the latest,
00:04let me give you a view of what happened a couple of hours earlier in the national capital.
00:09Even as protests in Mumbai continue, national capital witnessed a mass demonstration
00:15with the India bloc demanding the resignation of the chief election commissioner, Gyanesh Kumar.
00:20The All India Students Association, several civil society groups led the protest today
00:26and joined the workers of the Ahmadi Party, the Congress, the left, the RJD, all of them together,
00:32asking for one thing, the CEC must go.
00:36The police, however, stopped demonstrators from gathering at the Jantar Mantar, with several of them detained.
00:42We are told the number has gone up to over 1,100.
00:46Senior CPM leaders, including the General Secretary there, the former MP Brindakarat,
00:51among others who were taken into custody.
00:53The opposition has targeted the government and the election commission,
00:56while the government is hit back, defending the poll panel.
00:59But on your screens over there, the crowds were not allowed to enter.
01:04Anyone who was trying to get inside Jantar Mantar to stage a protest was picked up,
01:09taken into buses, detained and taken away.
01:13Here's how it happened.
01:30Two months after the CJP stir over exam paper leaks,
01:35the national capital once again is in the grip of protests.
01:42This time, over the special intensive revision of electoral rolls.
01:47The protesters are demanding the resignation of CEC Gyanesh Kumar.
01:55The All India Students Association and several civil society groups led the protests on Friday.
02:01Workers of the Army Party, Congress, left parties and RJD joined the demonstrations.
02:10However, unlike the previous CJP protests, the police this time stopped protesters from gathering at Jantar Mantar.
02:19Many protesters were detained.
02:23The leaders of the party and many workers of the party, they have been detained by the Delhi police.
02:31They have now been taken to a nearby police station.
02:34And you can see as to how the protesters, more protesters are being detained from here.
02:39And the Delhi police continuously asking people not to gather here at Jantar Mantar as Section 163 is in place.
02:50Senior CPM leaders, including General Secretary M.A. Baby and former MP Brinda Karat, were taken into custody.
03:00The police is detaining her.
03:03Clearly, she's not even being allowed to speak to the media.
03:07And here you see, as we talk, everyone being picked up almost immediately.
03:15The opposition lashed out at the government and the election commission over the issue.
03:24The police have to give up some names, which is the captain of the country.
03:28Kholye Ji, there will come as the forces to be carried out that the forces are running away.
03:33The officers will be gathered here as the police.
03:35Then the officers will be pushed.
03:35Kyanesh Kumar to arrest the election of criminal activities.
03:42The criminal activities.
03:43The cutting of people.
03:45The people, genuine eligible people.
03:48from voters' lists. It is a criminal act.
03:52The Narendra Roli government hit back at the opposition.
04:26The protests on Gandhi Jainti are just the start of the opposition's agitation planned
04:32for the removal of Gyanesh Kumar, with many more stirs across the nation in the pipeline.
04:43The government on the other side is in no mood to budge and is defending CEC Gyanesh Kumar.
04:51With Piyush Mishra, Himanshu Mishra and Shia Chatterjee, Bureau Report, India Today.
