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Thousands protest in India as ‘Cockroach’ movement demands the election chief to resign

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Protests spread from Delhi to Bengaluru as India’s youth “Cockroach” movement and opposition parties demand the election chief’s resignation. The campaign targets voter-list revisions that have removed more than 130 million names, raising fears of mass disenfranchisement.

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Both outlets frame the story around continuing protests and demands for the election chief to resign, with Al Jazeera and AP agreeing on the movement’s political pressure campaign. AP is the only outlet to foreground the scale and spread of the protests, saying they extend from Delhi to Bengaluru, and it is also alone in adding the voter-list revision issue and the figure of more than 130 million names removed. Al Jazeera’s extract is narrower, noting only that members were detained and that a mass demonstration is planned for Saturday.

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