The authorities of India have arrested this Thursday at his home the spokesperson and leader of the Cockroach People's Party (CJP), Deepak Baliyan, according to the youth movement, which has gained prominence this year with its protests, first against the Minister of Education and later against the head of the Electoral Commission of the country.
"The co-director of the National Organization of the CJP, Deepak Baliyan, has been detained at his home and is being transferred to the police station. Are we heading towards another state of exception?", the movement has pointed out, whose name parodies the ruling party of the Indian government on its social networks, without providing any additional information for now.
Hours later, the CJP has spoken out again to denounce that Baliyan "would have been dragged, beaten, and detained by the Rajasthan Police, and taken to an unknown location." "This is the absolutely dictatorial face of this Government," the organization has emphasized, which has also released a video in which what appears to be the detention of the spokesperson by Indian agents is observed.
The arrest is known amid a wave of protests in recent days against the head of the Indian Electoral Commission, Gyanesh Kumar, accused of trying to manipulate the electoral roll in favor of the prime minister's party, Narendra Modi.
The mobilizations, which demand Kumar's resignation, have been promoted precisely by this youth movement, articulated around student assemblies, which has gained significant social weight throughout this year to the point of forcing the resignation of the Minister of Education last summer after a scandal of exam leaks.