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Dhruv Rathee and Prakash Raj Join CJP Protest in Bengaluru Over Voter List Deletions

YouTuber Dhruv Rathee and actor Prakash Raj joined Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke at Bengaluru’s Freedom Park on October 8, 2026, to protest against the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls and demand Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation.

Nilakshi Barman | | 2 min read

Dhruv Rathee and Prakash Raj Join CJP Protest in Bengaluru Over Voter List Deletions
Image courtesy: PTI

In Brief

  1. YouTuber Dhruv Rathee, actor Prakash Raj, and CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke led a demonstration at Freedom Park in Bengaluru against the Election Commission's voter revision drive.
  2. The event featured a "People's Tribunal," allowing affected citizens from across Karnataka to share testimonies regarding alleged wrongful deletions of their names from electoral rolls.
  3. Demonstrators demanded the immediate resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, calling for the scrapping of the SIR exercise, followed by a planned "chappal" protest.

YouTuber Dhruv Rathee and actor-activist Prakash Raj joined hundreds of demonstrators at Freedom Park on Thursday, October 8, 2026, for a protest organized by the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) against the Election Commission of India's (ECI) Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.

The demonstration centered around a "People's Tribunal," where residents from across Karnataka presented grievances regarding the alleged wrongful deletion of their names from draft voter lists. Organizers claimed that many citizens who continue to reside at their registered addresses were misclassified as "shifted," "absent," or deceased during the revision process.

Addressing the crowd, Prakash Raj criticized the ECI's implementation of the SIR exercise and called for it to be scrapped entirely, arguing that the revision process undermined voting rights. YouTuber Dhruv Rathee released a report highlighting alleged procedural irregularities across 100 polling stations in Karnataka, citing a lack of transparency and accountability in the revision drive.

The organizers also announced that the tribunal would be followed by a symbolic "chappal" protest in solidarity with women, marking the second major CJP-led demonstration against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over the past week following an earlier gathering in Mumbai.

Local authorities maintained tight security at Freedom Park throughout the event. Organizers indicated that further demonstrations regarding the electoral roll revisions are planned at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi in the coming days.

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