Brief by Shorts91 Newsdesk / 01:27pm on 08 Oct 2026,Thursday India
Actor-activist Prakash Raj, YouTuber Dhruv Rathee and Cockroach Janta Party founder Abhijeet Dipke led a protest at Bengaluru’s Freedom Park on October 8 against the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. Organised as a “People’s Tribunal,” the demonstration brought together women, students and civil-society groups who alleged irregularities and wrongful deletion of voter names. Protesters demanded that the SIR exercise be scrapped and Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar resign. Raj argued that the issue concerns citizens’ voting rights and dignity, while Rathee criticised the Election Commission over what he described as a lack of transparency and accountability.
