Hundreds detained by Delhi police from Jantar Mantar during protest against CEC Gyanesh Kumar; security tightened at Mumbai’s Shivaji Park | LIVE

Students Federation of India (SFI) activists have been detained on their way to Jantar Mantar. All the roads around Jantar Mantar are barricaded as protesters try to enter the site. 

Amit Sharma, a civil engineer, who was trying to enter the site from Mandi House side, says, “My entire family’s name is on the voter list but not mine. And there is a lot of harassment that follows. This is why I’m here today, but we are not able to reach the protest site itself.” 

Another protester Anand Prakash says, “All the roads are blocked. So I might have to go back now.” 

A group of students from Krantikari Yuva Sangathan (KYS) try to figure out a way to get inside. One of them, Mudita, says, “It is being treated like a terrorist site. First, you don’t give us the right to vote. Then, you don’t give us the right to protest against it. If everything is going to be dictated, may as well call it a dictatorship.”

– Ashna Butani